OSLO, NORWAY:
A fourth girl who has accused the son of Norway’s crown princess of rape testified in an Oslo court docket on Wednesday over an alleged rape in 2024 when he was already underneath investigation for different incidents.
Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son from a relationship earlier than her 2001 marriage to inheritor obvious Crown Prince Haakon, faces 38 fees, together with raping 4 girls whereas they had been asleep or had handed out.
Hoiby has pleaded responsible to a number of comparatively minor offences, however denies the rapes. He faces as much as 16 years in jail if convicted.
The court docket heard testimony Wednesday from a lady who recounted an alleged rape on the night time of November 1-2, 2024. Hoiby is accused of getting engaged in sexual acts whereas she was asleep and of getting filmed the acts with out her data.
As with the three different alleged rapes, the occasions are mentioned to have taken place following an evening of ingesting — throughout which Hoiby is alleged to have used cocaine — after preliminary consensual intercourse within the younger girl’s lodge room.
“I used to be getting increasingly more drained. I felt like I used to be simply mendacity there and he simply would not cease. The extra drained I bought, the much less I took half,” she informed the court docket.
After she had informed him she wished to sleep, she mentioned she was woken up by “a violent blow” to her genital space.
“It was painful,” she mentioned, including that “I believe I simply froze, then I fell again asleep.”
Hoiby is accused of getting filmed 27 movies and brought 4 sexually express pictures that night time, a few of which, based on the prosecution, present the girl was asleep.
Hoiby will give his model of occasions on Wednesday afternoon. From the outset, he has denied rape and maintains that each one the intercourse had been consensual.
On the time of the fourth alleged rape, he was already underneath police investigation. Hoiby was arrested on August 4, 2024, suspected of getting assaulted his accomplice the earlier night time.
The investigation into that incident uncovered a slew of different suspected offences, together with video footage on his telephone and laptop computer of what police believed to be rapes.
When confronted by police, not one of the girls had been conscious of what had occurred to them or that the actions might be thought of felony.
Høiby attended Wang highschool, however dropped out with out graduating. In 2017, he briefly enrolled at a course in “enterprise” at Santa Monica Faculty, a group faculty for non-traditional college students within the US, however dropped out after a couple of months with out finishing a level.
In late 2017, Høiby moved again to Norway briefly earlier than working as an intern for designer Philipp Plein. He then labored as a method editor for the UK-based vogue journal Tempus till its closure in December 2018.
Høiby has had a sequence of high-profile relationships. He has dated heiress Linn Helena Nilsen, mannequin and actress Juliane Snekkestad, and influencer Nora Haukland.
In 2024, a police interrogation of Høiby revealed that Prince Haakon “along with the crown princess” paid his payments. Høiby acquired 20,000 kroner every month.
As of 2025, Høiby doesn’t have a diplomatic passport. In 2024, media acknowledged that he had abused the privilege of holding a diplomatic passport.
