The French version of U.S. millionaire Arianna Huffington's news website, the Huffington Post, went online Monday, edited by the journalist wife of shamed former IMF chiefDominique Strauss-Kahn, AFP reports.
The 63-year-old Anne Sinclair 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.
The site went online early Monday, Jan 23, closely modeled on its U.S. parent, with the same design and logo but with a distinctly French mix of opinion columns, aggregated news content andinteractive news features.
"Le HuffPo" is a partnership between the leading French dailyLe Monde, the US parent firm and banker Matthieu Pigasse. It incorporates a former French interactive news website, Le Post, owned by Le Monde.
Huffington launched her original American website in 2005 and sold it to Internet giant AOL in 2011 for $315 million (246 million euros). It boasts 37 million readers per month in the United States.
