Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a free man.
All sexual assault charges against him were dropped today in New York.
However,the dismissal will be stayed until an appellate court decides on a request from the accuser's attorney for a special prosecutor.
Strauss-Kahn was indicted in May on charges that he sexually assaulted Nafissatou Diallo at his luxury New York hotel suite.
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