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Sorry, tourists: If, after shopping at Century 21 and seeing Ground Zero, you were hoping to visit 71 Broadway to tell your friends, "Hey, I saw the building where Dominique Strauss-Kahn has house arrest," you're out of luck.

Various American lawmakers are making the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair into a bigger

With friends like these, maybe sexual assault allegation can disappear! The Post reports that Dominique Strauss-Kahn's friends are contacting the overseas relatives of his accuser, offering money to make the charges go away.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leading French politician who is accused of sexually assaulting a maid at a Times Square hotel, sent a farewell email to the IMF proclaiming his innocence.

Lower Manhattan is filled with tour guides informing tourists, "On your right is the building where the French guy accused of attempted rape is staying."

A new neighbor gave Strauss-Kahn high praise: "He's an OK guy...I think he is misjudged by the public. I don't want to say they trapped him, but it seems like there's more to this story."

Ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released on bail yesterday afternoon, hours later than he expected to leave, because there were problems with where he'd be spending his extra-supervised house arrest.