The Son of Norway’s Crown Princess Has Been Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Rape And Domestic Abuse
An Oslo court found Høiby guilty of two counts of rape, domestic abuse and several other offenses.
The son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of rape, domestic abuse and multiple other offenses.
29-year-old Marius Borg Høiby, Mette Marit’s son from a previous relationship before she became crown princess, was first arrested in August 2024 in Oslo after being accused of attacking a 20-year-old woman.
As police continued investigating, more allegations emerged.
By November 2024, police said the number of his alleged victims was in the "double digits."
In August 2025, authorities charged him with 40 criminal offenses, including four counts of rape, domestic violence, drug-related crimes, violations of restraining orders and traffic offenses, reportedly between 2018 and 2024.
He was arrested again by Oslo police on Feb. 1 over new allegations involving assaulting and threatening a woman, including breaching a restraining order, according to Reuters.
On Feb. 3, the trial opened, and a Norwegian court ordered that he remain in custody while the proceedings continue.
The court found that the women involved in the rape cases were unable to consent, as they were “too unconscious or too incapacitated to resist.”
In what became one of the trial’s most closely watched moments, one woman told the court that during an alleged assault, “He just wouldn’t stop.”
The only victim publicly named in the case was Høiby’ ex-girlfriend Nora Haukland, whom he allegedly physically abused repeatedly between 2022 and 2023, including hitting her in the face, choking and kicking her.
During the trial, Høiby denied all four rape allegations and the domestic abuse charges, but admitted to several of the lesser offenses, including a drug-related offense and causing physical harm to Haukland.
He told the court the intense scrutiny had "erased him as a person."
On Monday, June 15, after a seven-week trial, an Oslo court found Høiby guilty of two counts of rape, including one in the basement of the crown prince's home, domestic abuse and several other offenses and sentenced him to four years in prison.
The court also ordered him to pay compensation to Haukland and three other women, and issued a two-year restraining order protecting one of the victims.
Although Høiby is the eldest son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, he has no royal title and does not perform official duties.
The verdict comes months after Norway’s royal family faced separate scrutiny over newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents that revealed Mette-Marit herself had maintained contact with the convicted sex offender between 2011 and 2014, years after his 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving minors.
Ikran Dahir
