The so-called "Steele dossier" alleged Donald Trump took part in "sex parties" and engaged in "golden showers", giving Russia material with which to blackmail him. Donald Trump's legal claim over allegations he took part in "perverted" sex acts and gave bribes to Russian officials has been dismissed by a High Court judge. He had brought the data protection case in the UK after claims were published about him in the so-called "Steele Dossier" before the election - which saw Mr Trump become president.
Mr Steele was the author of the dossier which included allegations Mr Trump had been "compromised" by the Russian security service, the FSB. The dossier, made up of more than a dozen memos, was produced by Orbis in , before it was leaked to and published by BuzzFeed in The former US president - who is running for re-election in after losing to Joe Biden in - brought the legal action against Orbis and sought compensation for distress.
The court was told during a hearing last year Mr Trump was bringing his case over two memos in the dossier which claimed he had taken part in "sex parties" while in St Petersburg and engaged in "golden showers" with prostitutes in Moscow. Hugh Tomlinson KC, representing Mr Trump, described the allegations in the memos - which also included a claim the year-old had "defiled" a bed previously used by former president Barack Obama and his wife - as "egregiously inaccurate".
Read more: Christopher Steele: Confessions of a former British spy. In a written witness statement in October, Mr Trump claimed the dossier contained "numerous false, phoney or made-up allegations" and that he was suing Orbis to "prove, by evidence at trial, that the data are false". He said he had not engaged in "perverted sexual behaviour including the hiring of prostitutes They argued it was "brought for the purpose of harassing Orbis and Mr Steele and pursuing longstanding grievances".
Orbis's counsel Antony White said Mr Trump had called for Mr Steele to be "extradited, tried, and thrown into jail", and called him a "lowlife" and "sleazebag" involved in the "Russian collusion hoax" who produced "a total phoney con job" dossier. He said Mr Trump has "a deep and intense animus" against Mr Steele and Orbis, and "a long history of repeatedly bringing frivolous, meritless and vexatious claims for the purpose of vexing and harassing perceived enemies and others against whom he bears a grudge".
