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.
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 said.
Strauss-Kahn was runaway favorite for France's 2012 election until he was charged last May with trying to rape a New York hotel maid in a case that brought his IMF career to an end and destroyed his presidential ambitions.
The charges were later dropped after the maid was judged to be an unreliable witness and Sinclair has stuck fast by Strauss-Kahn's side, despite him being linked to other sex assault complaints and a prostitution ring scandal.
Born in New York in 1948, Sinclair is the granddaughter of Paul Rosenberg, one of the most prominent art dealers of the 20th century, and daughter of Robert Schwartz, a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II.
