🇳🇴⚖️ Son of Norway’s Crown Princess sentenced to 4 years in prison for rape
29-year-old Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been found guilty of raping two women and sentenced to four years in prison.
Prosecutors had sought a significantly harsher sentence of seven years and seven months. The defense is expected to appeal the ruling.
One of the victims testified that after a brief consensual sexual encounter, she lost consciousness and later saw video footage showing Høiby raping her while she was unconscious. She believes she may have been drugged.
Høiby claimed he could not remember the details of that night but insisted that all sexual activity had been consensual.
The family has faced controversy before. In 2019, Crown Princess Mette-Marit acknowledged that she had maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein and later publicly apologized for the association.