- President Trump has filed a lawsuit against Steele's company, Orbis Business Intelligence.
Donald Trump has been ordered to pay six-figure legal fees to the company of former MI6 official Christopher Steele after being sued for allegedly attending “sex parties” and bribing Russian officials.
The former US president has filed a lawsuit against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consulting firm founded by former MI6 official Christopher Steele.
Steele, who previously served on the Secret Service's Russia desk, is the author of the so-called Steele dossier, which denies that Trump was “compromised” by Russia's security agency, the FSB. It contained content.
At a hearing in London last year, the High Court ruled that data protection over two notes in the document alleging Trump attended a “sex party” and had a “golden shower” with Trump while in St. Petersburg. I was told that a complaint had been made. She is a Moscow prostitute.
In a ruling last month, Judge Stein dismissed Mr. Trump's lawsuit, ruling that Mr. Trump's claims for compensation were “inevitably unsuccessful.”
And in his order, the judge said the Republican front-runner would pay Orbis' costs “in full.”
Mrs Justice Steyn said Orbis estimated the cost to be more than £600,000.
She ordered Mr Trump to pay £300,000 before a specialist judge determined the total costs.
The early February order also states that Trump is not attempting to appeal the decision.
The document, made up of more than a dozen memos, was created by Orbis in 2016 ahead of the U.S. election in which Trump became president, and then leaked to Buzzfeed and made public in 2017.
At a hearing in October 2023, Mr Trump's spokesperson, Hugh Tomlinson KC, laid out the allegations in the memo, which included that the 77-year-old Mr Trump had previously been used by former President Barack Obama and his wife. It also included a claim that the bed had been “stained” – as “grossly inaccurate”.
Judge Stein rejected that argument, saying the “mere fact” that Orbis kept a copy of the memo could not embarrass Trump.
