Mr Estrada, aged 60 and now on the plump side, might seem to be an unlikely womaniser.

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They feed rumours that he was a womaniser, a drunk, even a crypto-Jew.

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The earl died aged 33 from syphilis after making a name for himself as a poet, a womaniser and pornographer.

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He acknowledged the difficulties caused by a "contemptible" anti-Islamic video made in the US depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser.

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Nevertheless, he was a womaniser with uncalculated conquests and seven known children.

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It was an open secret long before his arrest that Mr Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister and economics professor, was an inveterate womaniser.

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During his trial last year, which lasted five months, prosecutors painted Mr Spector as a serial womaniser with a penchant for lavish living and guns.

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Then there was Mr Strauss-Kahn's history as a womaniser to consider.

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