Ms Sinclair was a fixture of Sunday evening TV in the 1980s, drawing millions
of viewers with her pithy interviews with top politicians and celebrities
such as Madonna. She interviewed Mr Strauss-Kahn as a junior minister.
Born in New York in 1948, Ms 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 the Second World War.