<p>A Paris court today ordered two French glossies to pay USD 49,000 in damages to disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend for publishing "stolen photographs" of them together.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The magazines VSD and Closer, which had published photographs of Strauss-Kahn and Myriam L'Aouffir embracing and other shots of the pair on vacation, had breached the couple's privacy, judge Anne-Marie Sauteraud ruled.<br /><br />She ordered VSD to pay 8,000 euros to the one-time contender for the French presidency and 15,000 euros to L'Aouffir. Closer was asked to pay 5,000 euros to Strauss-Kahn and 10,000 euros to L'Aouffir.<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn's lawyer had sought 80,000 euros in damages from VSD, the first magazine to publish the photographs, and 50,000 euros from Closer.<br /><br />His lawyer Richard Malka said it was clear the photographs were not in the general interest, adding sarcastically: "All this is not being done to sell copies, it's just to inform us."<br /><br />The VSD photographs showed them on holiday in Corsica and claimed that with his new girlfriend, "DSK has become a gentleman again".<br /><br />L'Aouffir's lawyer Laurent Jourdan said she was seeking 100,000 euros from each publication.<br /><br />He said his client, who works at the France 2 television channel, had been "totally unknown to the public", and now the "most intimate details of her private life were unravelled."<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn suffered a stunning fall from grace following his arrest at a New York hotel on sexual assault charges last year and a subsequent string of sex-related investigations in France.<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn's wife of some two decades, Anne Sinclair, recently confirmed their split. A former television journalist and the heiress to a large fortune, Sinclair now runs the French edition of the Huffington Post.</p>
<p>A Paris court today ordered two French glossies to pay USD 49,000 in damages to disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend for publishing "stolen photographs" of them together.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The magazines VSD and Closer, which had published photographs of Strauss-Kahn and Myriam L'Aouffir embracing and other shots of the pair on vacation, had breached the couple's privacy, judge Anne-Marie Sauteraud ruled.<br /><br />She ordered VSD to pay 8,000 euros to the one-time contender for the French presidency and 15,000 euros to L'Aouffir. Closer was asked to pay 5,000 euros to Strauss-Kahn and 10,000 euros to L'Aouffir.<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn's lawyer had sought 80,000 euros in damages from VSD, the first magazine to publish the photographs, and 50,000 euros from Closer.<br /><br />His lawyer Richard Malka said it was clear the photographs were not in the general interest, adding sarcastically: "All this is not being done to sell copies, it's just to inform us."<br /><br />The VSD photographs showed them on holiday in Corsica and claimed that with his new girlfriend, "DSK has become a gentleman again".<br /><br />L'Aouffir's lawyer Laurent Jourdan said she was seeking 100,000 euros from each publication.<br /><br />He said his client, who works at the France 2 television channel, had been "totally unknown to the public", and now the "most intimate details of her private life were unravelled."<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn suffered a stunning fall from grace following his arrest at a New York hotel on sexual assault charges last year and a subsequent string of sex-related investigations in France.<br /><br />Strauss-Kahn's wife of some two decades, Anne Sinclair, recently confirmed their split. A former television journalist and the heiress to a large fortune, Sinclair now runs the French edition of the Huffington Post.</p>