David Beckham loses defamation case filed against magazine

David Beckham has lost the defamation lawsuit he filed against In Touch Weekly's publisher. A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed his suit for not producing enough evidence that the tabloid acted maliciously when they claim he slept with a call girl.

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In December, In Touch published an interview with prostitute Irma Nici, who claims she had sex with Victoria Beckham's husband in numerous occasions in New York and London in 2007, including with another call girl during a threesome in August of that year.

Beckham denied the allegations. He filed a $25 million lawsuit against Nici and Bauer Publishing Co., the publisher of the magazine.

But on Monday, the judge dismissed the case, ruling that the soccer star's legal team failed to prove that the publisher acted with malice.

His rep said in a statement given to E! News, "Bauer do not dispute for purposes of this motion that their story is false. They have not provided one shred of evidence to support the claim this story is true. David Beckham's clear evidence proved that this is without foundation."

"We have already won a court ruling in Germany and are awaiting damages. Unfortunately, the U.S. legal system requires us to show that the magazine acted maliciously. Any knowledgeable person knows this story not to be true, and we will continue to fight this in court and the decision will be appealed."