Son of Norway’s crown princess found guilty of r@pe and jailed for four years

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The son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been jailed for four years after being found guilty of r@pe.

Marius Borg Høiby was convicted today of two counts of r@pe following a six-week trial that laid bare allegations of violence, drug abuse and s£xual misconduct.

An Oslo court also found him guilty of ass@ulting his former girlfriend, Nora Haukland, issuing threats and committing traffic offences, although he was acquitted of two other r@pe charges.

The 29-year-old had been charged with s£xually ass@ulting four women who were asleep or otherwise unable to resist between 2018 and 2024.

Judge Jon Sverdrup Efjestad handed down the sentence after hearing evidence linked to 40 charges, including four alleged rapes, assaults, breaches of restraining orders, drug offences and driving violations. One charge relating to a restraining-order violation was overturned.

The court heard how Høiby’s drug addiction spiralled in recent years, while investigators presented more than 800 messages and a series of self-made videos of s£xual encounters as evidence during the trial.

One alleged r@pe took place in the basement of the Crown Prince’s family home, the court was told.

Høiby, who denied the most serious allegations while admitting to some lesser offences, was not physically present in court for the verdict and instead joined proceedings via video link.

The verdict comes at an especially difficult time for Høiby’s mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, whose health has deteriorated sharply in recent months.
 

She suffers from pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease that makes breathing increasingly difficult.

Earlier this month, she was placed on Norway’s national lung transplant waiting list after her condition worsened.