donald trump A company sued over allegations of “perverted” sex acts and bribery of Russian officials has been told to pay six-figure legal fees.
Mrs Justice Stein last month dismissed the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consulting firm founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.
She ruled that Trump's reparations claim was “inevitable to fail.”
In her new ruling, she ordered Trump to pay Orbis's “entire bill.”
The order, obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, also states that Mr Trump is not attempting to appeal.
Mr. Steele previously headed the Secret Service's Russia desk and was the author of the so-called Steele Dossier.
This included unsubstantiated intelligence claims, which Trump denied, that the former US president had been “compromised” by the Russian security service, the FSB.
The high court heard a data protection challenge last year over two notes in a document that claimed Trump attended a “sex party” in St. Petersburg and had a “golden shower” with prostitutes in Moscow. I was told.
Mrs Justice Steyn said Orbis estimated the cost to be more than £600,000.
He said Mr Trump should pay £300,000 before a specialist judge decides the total costs.
The document, made up of more than a dozen memos, was created by Orbis in 2016, before Trump won that year's election and became president. It was then leaked to BuzzFeed and made public in 2017.
At a hearing in October 2023, Mr Trump's spokesperson Hugh Tomlinson KC explained the allegations in the memo. These included allegations that Trump, 77, had “defaced” the bed previously occupied by former President Barack Obama and his wife. as “grossly inaccurate.”
Judge Stein rejected that argument, saying the “mere fact” that Orbis kept a copy of the memo could not embarrass Trump.
Orbis welcomed the ruling last month, saying, “We strongly feel that Mr. Trump brought this complaint to seek revenge against Orbis and to chill free speech.”
Trump is almost certain to win the Republican nomination and run against incumbent President Joe Biden, who is seeking a return to the White House.
The last remaining competitor, Nikki Haley, withdrew from the race on Wednesday.
