Donald Trump has been ordered to pay at least $382,000 (£300,000) in costs after losing a UK court case against the former MI6 agent behind the “Steele dossier”, The Telegraph reports.
In February, High Court judge Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the data protection claim Mr Trump brought against Christopher Steele and his company Orbis Business Intelligence, saying it was “bound to fail”.
The explosive dossier, published just before Mr Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration, alleged he had received “golden showers” from Russian prostitutes, participated in St Petersburg sex parties and had been compromised by the country’s FSB security service.
Mr Trump, 77, angrily denied the allegations contained in the report, which had been commissioned by Democratic consultants before the 2016 presidential election.
The dossier, which also claimed that the former president had been cultivated by Vladimir Putin, underpinned the investigation by Robert Mueller, the US special prosecutor, which concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election but found no evidence of collusion with the Trump election team.
Mr Trump sued Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent, Democratic party leaders and Mr Steele, who had run MI6’s Russia desk, in the US.
