Allegations have emerged that the 32-year-old cleaner was was taking extra money from male guests at the hotel for sex.
'There is information... of her getting extraordinary tips, if you know what I mean. And it's not for bringing extra f**king towels,' a source close to the defence investigation told the New York Post.
The woman also had 'a lot of her expenses – hair braiding, salon expenses – paid for by men not related to her,' the source added.
As Strauss-Kahn was yesterday sensationally released from house arrest and had his security ankle tag removed, it emerged in a letter to court from Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon that the woman:
Lied in a U.S. asylum application that her husband was tortured in jail and died of injuries
Lied about having been gang raped by soldiers in Guinea to help her asylum application
Lied about waiting in the hall outside the suite of the 'attack' until Strauss-Kahn left
Lied by claiming a friend's child as her own for the last two years to get a higher tax refund
The Guinean hotel maid accused Strauss-Kahn of chasing her through his luxury New York suite, trying to pull down her pantihose and forcing her to perform oral sex.
Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, who have insisted that the encounter was consensual, refused to comment on the allegations that the maid was working as a prostitute in the hotel.
The French citizen was enjoying freedom today as he emerged smiling from his Tribeca apartment to hand his wife into a town car.
The couple had no luggage with them as they drove off together this afternoon at around 2pm. They were followed by a second black sedan.
Looking relaxed and ahppy, they showed no ill effects from their celebrations last night, when they dined on a $700 four-course celebration dinner with red and white wines at an exclusive Upper East Side Italian eatery.
Strauss-Kahn partied with his wife Anne Sinclair and another couple at the Scalinatella Ristorante in Manhattan hours after being sensationally handed his freedom without bail as damaging details emerged on the credibility of the hotel maid accusing him of rape.
The one-time candidate for the French presidency enjoyed an antipasti dish of prosciutto and 'orange flesh melon' accompanied by Pinot Grigio, before dining on pappardella with truffles.
Strauss Kahn, 62, then had a main course of Mediterranean sea bass served with Italian red wine.
The charges against Strauss-Kahn, which include attempted rape, have not been reduced, but background investigations of the 'victim' have created 'serious credibility issues' for prosecutors.
Taste of freedom: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn exits the kitchen of the Scalinatella restaurant on the Upper East Side after being released from house arrest
Experts said that prosecutors could still pursue case against Strauss-Kahn though as it has not been dismissed.
Wearing a jacket but no tie, Strauss Kahn emerged from his house smiling last night before driving to the expensive restaurant with his wife and an elderly couple.
The meal cost between between $600 and $700, according to Luigi Rosso, the restaurant's owner who said the party did not have a reservation.
Strauss-Kahn thanked the chef after the celebratory feast before returning to the Tribeca apartment where he is living.
The 32-year-old hotel maid accused the International Monetary Fund ex-chief of chasing her through his luxury suite in May and raping her.
Forensic tests have revealed the pair definitely had a sexual encounter, but defence lawyers have claimed it was consensual - and public opinion is stunningly starting to shift in his favour.
The move in court signals prosecutors do not see the accusations as ironclad aymore. Strauss-Kahn had been under house arrest for weeks in a Manhattan loft on $6million in cash and bond.
‘It is a great relief,’ said Strauss-Kahn's attorney, William Taylor, adding that the case underscores ‘how easy it is for people to be charged with serious crimes and for there to be a rush to judgement.’
Strauss-Kahn arrived at the courthouse on Friday morning in a Lexus SUV and strode confidently up the granite steps with his wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair, at his side.
After the hearing, he walked slowly out with his arm on her shoulder, smiling slightly at the throng of reporters and members of the public gathered outside.
His passport remained surrendered, and he will not yet be allowed to leave the country. His other attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said Strauss-Kahn would be free to travel within the U.S.
Investigators have come to believe that the accuser lied about some of her activities in the hours around the alleged attack and about her own background, a law enforcement official said.
Prosecutors think she lied about details on her application for asylum in the U.S., including saying she had been raped in her native Guinea, the official said under the condition of anonymity.
In a letter to the court Ms Illuzzi-Orbon laid out in detail the problems with the alleged victim.
SO IS IT ALL A BIG CONSPIRACY?
Many in France have always insisted that he has been the victim of rough American justice.
Some even believe the sex attack charges are a conspiracy cooked up by his political opponents.
'Those who know Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not be surprised by this evolution of events,' one of his French lawyers, Leon Lef Forster, said in Paris.
'What he was accused of has no relation to his personality. It was something that was not credible.'
In her application for asylum to the U.S. for herself and her daughter in 2004 she said that the home she shared with her husband in Guinea was burned down by soldiers for the country's regime.
He was then supposedly put in jail and tortured where he died of his injuries.
This was a lie she later admitted.
She also claimed she had been gang raped by soldiers in Guinea to help her asylum application and cried when recounting this to prosecutors, but later admitted this was a lie.
In addition, she admitted that she lied to a Grand Jury that she waited in the hallway outside the suite where she was attacked until Strauss-Kahn left.
The reality is that she 'proceeded to clean a nearby room' then returning to the suite where she was attacked before cleaning that too. Only then did she report it to her supervisor.
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