Strauss-Kahn Wife to Edit 'French Huffington Post'

Anne Sinclair, the wife of disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is to be editorial director of the French version of U.S. news and opinion website the Huffington Post.

"Le Huffington Post" will announce its launch at a news conference on Monday, hosted by co-founder Arianna Huffington and Sinclair, who gave up her job as a star television journalist when Strauss-Kahn became finance minister in 1997.

The Huffington Post, one of the most influential U.S. news websites, bought by AOL Inc a year ago, said in October that it and media group partner Le Monde would create a French site with editorial staff in France. Organisers of Monday's conference could not give the exact launch date.

The 63-year-old heiress was voted France's most popular woman in a December poll for an online women's magazine, just beating the country's former finance minister, now IMF chief, Christine Lagarde and well ahead of first lady Carla Bruni.

(Reuters)