An accusation that millionaire author Dan Brown stole the ideas for his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was a “travesty”, a High Court judge heard today.

THE judge hearing The Da Vinci Code “copying” case challenged its author yesterday over when he read the book whose authors are claiming he lifted their ideas.

DAN BROWN, one of the highest paid authors in history, said yesterday accusations that he had stolen the ideas for his blockbuster, The Da Vinci Code, were "completely fanciful".

AN author who claims his theories on Christian heresies were copied by Dan Brown in his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code admitted in court yesterday that some of his earlier evidence was false.

A New Zealand author wants to sue the makers of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie Mr and Mrs Smith for allegedly stealing the story idea from his book.

THE DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown sat in Britain’s High Court yesterday accused of taking material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail.

THE secrets of The Da Vinci Code came in for legal scrutiny yesterday at the High Court in London, where multi-millionaire author Dan Brown confronted two historians who claim their work was plundered for his blockbuster novel.