Lagarde’s predecessor at the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, resigned in 2011 when he was accused of sexually assaulting a maid in a New York City hotel. The case was later dropped and a civil suit was settled out of court.

(Updated at 6:40pm ET with the IMF’s statement.)

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