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A compilation of Sofitel Hotel surveillance videos found their way to French television station BFMTV, showing Dominique Strauss-Kahn checking out of the hotel on May 14 as well as his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, apparently reporting his alleged sexual assault to hotel managers. The video also shows two of those managers in their now-infamous "victory dance" first mentioned in Edward Jay Epstein's in-depth investigation published in the New York Review of Books. Both Strauss-Kahn and Diallo's side can find something to celebrate in the release of the footage, but so far, Diallo's people are the ones claiming victory. The real question, of who released the footage, remains unanswered.

The footage first shows Strauss-Kahn leaving an elevator, checking out, and then hailing a cab casually and unhurridly. His manner doesn't suggest one running from the scene of a recently committed crime. The video then shows a much more animated Diallo, who appears to act out an attack, grabbing her breast and raising her hands as if to push someone away. Finally, the video cuts to the victory dance between Adrian Branch and John Sheehan, security executives at the hotel, who Epstein's story implies were celebrating some kind of frame-up. Epstein originally reported that the dance lasted three minutes, but the New York Review of Books updated its story, reporting that the dance lasted "about 13 seconds." That's what the video shows, too. Accor, which owns the Sofitel group of hotels, previously denied the men were celebrating a conspiracy: "both employees categorically deny this exchange had anything to do with Mr. Strauss-Kahn," a Nov. 28 statement reads.