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NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has left the New York apartment where the former IMF chief is under house arrest on sexual assault charges.

Anne Sinclair left the luxury high-rise in lower Manhattan near Wall Street on May 22 morning. She got into an SUV, destination unknown.

Sinclair has stood by her husband since his arrest May 15. The 62-year-old economist is accused of sexually assaulting a maid in his suite at Manhattan’s Sofitel.

He was released from Rikers Island jail on May 20 on $1 million bail plus $5 million bond.

A crowd of international reporters and onlookers stands around the clock outside the apartment building at 71 Broadway where Strauss-Kahn was brought after another luxury building rejected him, fearing a media frenzy.