The two men he said abused him have died and the statute of limitations precludes him from taking any legal action.
The six-year statute of limitations precluded him from pressing criminal charges, however, so last year he filed a civil suit in New York State Supreme Court against Boone and her gallery, charging that they had intentionally defrauded him.
It involved a stroke of luck; the incoming prosecutor who is bringing the case, Kevin Steele, ran on his predecessor's poor handling of the Cosby case and won office one month before the statute of limitations barred him from filing criminal charges.
Ms Banon's lawyer described the decision as a victory: "[Mr Strauss-Kahn] will have to be satisfied with being an unconvicted sex attacker, protected by the statute of limitations, allowing him to escape criminal prosecution, but not a legitimate suspicion," lawyer David Koubbi said.
The statute of limitations protects him against serious pedophilia predatory crimes.
In 2013, Foos decided that it was time to share his glorious findings with the world, and gave Talese permission to publish his journals and use his name, believing that the statute of limitations would protect him.
Some of his efforts took the form of laws (like the country's statute of limitations) that helped him to avoid conviction, some to attacks on the judiciary, some to the introduction of a voting system partly designed to keep him in power.
In his appeal, Mr. Mandell argues all of the claimed American victims who testified at his trial conducted their trades so long ago that the statute of limitations bars charging him with crimes for those trades, and that the rest were British.
And last month, at the HOPE hacker conference in New York, Mitnick announced that a lapsed statute of limitations will allow him to publish a book detailing his exploits as a cybercriminal and a fugitive.
