Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn - the man once tipped to be the next President of France - is facing more legal woes.

In the first day of a civil trial, a hotel maid who is claiming that he raped her, and now the man known as "DSK" in France has been ordered to pay a $130,000 bail and is being investigated on suspicion he participated in a pimping operation in France.

Al Jazeera's Nadim, Baba reports.