Welcome to New York

Welcome to New York : A controversial 2014 feature film closely based on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and starring French film icon, Gerard Depardieu. The man who might have become the next President of France was hauled off of an airliner headed back to his country and arrested for having allegedly raped a chambermaid in his Manhattan Hotel shortly before he departed for France. The film takes its liberties with the truth, but largely tracks the case that gripped New Yorkers, and the entire population of France, until the prosecution dropped all charges and declined to take the case to trial. Join FOLCS for a lively discussion about the film, and the actual case, with celebrated criminal defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, who represented Strauss-Kahn and who is depicted in the film, former prosecutor and bestselling crime novelist Linda Fairstein, actor Ronald Guttman, who appears in the film, and New York Times reporter William Rashbaum, who covered the case.











When: Wed., Nov. 2, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Where: NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square S.
212-998-6040
Price: $55
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Welcome to New York : A controversial 2014 feature film closely based on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and starring French film icon, Gerard Depardieu. The man who might have become the next President of France was hauled off of an airliner headed back to his country and arrested for having allegedly raped a chambermaid in his Manhattan Hotel shortly before he departed for France. The film takes its liberties with the truth, but largely tracks the case that gripped New Yorkers, and the entire population of France, until the prosecution dropped all charges and declined to take the case to trial. Join FOLCS for a lively discussion about the film, and the actual case, with celebrated criminal defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, who represented Strauss-Kahn and who is depicted in the film, former prosecutor and bestselling crime novelist Linda Fairstein, actor Ronald Guttman, who appears in the film, and New York Times reporter William Rashbaum, who covered the case.

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