The Hotel Sofitel New York has launched a $1M advertising and public relations campaign to lure back sexual predators after a hotel maid accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, of forcing her to perform oral sex on him. On the basis of her charges, Strauss-Kahn was arrested while attempting to leave the country, has been arraigned, and is now being held on $1M bail; many of the sexual predators who stay at the hotel have been cancelling reservations, dropping the occupancy rate by nearly half.
“Predators who want hotel accommodations in New York should realize that the maid who accused our guest was acting on her own, and not representing the hotel or its policies,” said a spokesman for the luxury hotel. “The complaint was entirely unauthorized. We regret the inconvenience that this irresponsible act has caused, and assure the public that this will not happen again.
“The Hotel Sofitel New York is proud of the predator-friendly policy under which the rich and powerful men who are our guests have been able to perform any sexual act, with or without consent, with any of our staff, and without complaint for years. With more than 30,000 such acts carried out at our hotel, we have had only this one complaint. It is unfortunate that the publicity has affected our hotel’s otherwise unblemished reputation.”
Insiders say that the hotel’s campaign, which led off with advertisements on online porn sites and in airline magazines has already had an enormous impact. New bookings are headed for record levels and the hotel is running full page advertisements for new staff, with bonuses for nuns, choir boys, and schoolgirls. The second part of the campaign will feature celebrity endorsements by Strauss-Khan himself, as well as Congressman Anthony Weiner, and actor Charlie Sheen.
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