Background
The daughter of a lawyer, she was born and raised in Buenos Aires into an Argentine family of Jewish background.
The daughter of a lawyer, she was born and raised in Buenos Aires into an Argentine family of Jewish background.
She studied law and became the youngest member of the Buenos Aires bar at the age of 21.
In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him. She continued her studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ) in France. She was also a columnist for the newspaper Libération.
Iacub is known for voicing opinions contrary to those of mainstream French feminists.
In 2001, with Pierre Jouannet, she published Juger la vie. The following year, she published a collection of essays Le crime était presque sexuel et autres essais de casuistique juridique.
In 2012, she published Une société de violeurs? An affair with Strauss-Kahn followed which ended in August that year. In September 2014, she became a panelist on the RTL radio show Les Grosses Têtes.
Which defended Dominique Strauss-Kahn and criticized feminist critics for their portrayal of mentor
Iacub became a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as well as an associate member of the Centre d"étude des normes juridiques at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales .