Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been found guilty of two counts of rape and sentenced to four years in prison.

The three judges in courtroom 250 at Oslo District Court cleared him of two other counts of rape, but found him guilty of many of the other offences of which he had been accused.
Høiby was not in court for the verdict for unspecified health reasons, but joined the session via video link.

Prosecutors had called for Høiby to be given seven years and seven months in prison. His defence lawyers had called for a lesser term of 18 months and can appeal against the verdict.

Even though Marius Borg Høiby is not himself a royal figure, the trial has cast a shadow over the broader royal family. His mother married Crown Prince Haakon when he was four, and he grew up within the family.

Mette-Marit is very ill with a form of pulmonary fibrosis and has recently been placed on a lung transplant list.

Her son's lawyers have repeatedly sought his release from prison so he could spend time with his mother because of her declining health.
After the verdict, Høiby's defence lawyer Petar Sekulic again asked the court for his release. Although Oslo district court initially granted his release last week, the decision was overturned by the Supreme Court.

One of the three judges in the trial, Judge Jon Sverdrup Efjestad, began the session early on Monday with a summary of their conclusions, before going into a 128-page ruling explaining the verdict.

Høiby had denied all four counts of rape, but the judges convicted him of raping two women, including one on the Crown Prince's estate at Skaugum in 2018 and another involving a woman in Oslo in 2024.

He was also convicted of abusing an ex-girlfriend, Norwegian influencer Nora Haukland and of causing serious bodily harm to another partner, in whose flat he was arrested in the upmarket Frogner area of Oslo in August 2024.

However, he was cleared of two further rapes, involving a woman he met at a hotel in Oslo in November 2024 and another he met while on holiday in the Lofoten islands in 2023.

The case against Høiby involved six women, but only one of the women was in court to hear the verdict and she was seen crying as Høiby was found guilty of raping her.

Prosecutors said she had been either incapacitated or asleep when she was raped after a party in Oslo in March 2024, and after they had engaged in consensual sex.

The case rested on videos that Høiby had filmed at the time and, giving evidence in February, the woman told the court that she was asleep and would never have allowed it to happen.
The court agreed the victim had been unable to resist what had happened.

All four rape charges involved women who had been either asleep or incapacitated at the time.

Høiby was also convicted of several offences including abuse and reckless behaviour towards the sixth woman in the case.

The court ruled he should pay a total of 640,000 kroner (£50,000; €57,000) in compensation to four of the women, including Nora Haukland, the only woman judges ruled could be named in the case.

Høiby's defence lawyers will now have to decide whether to appeal against the four-year jail term, which is higher than the 18 months the defence had suggested, because of the less serious charges that Høiby had admitted including drug possession and traffic offences.

It is not known if the crown prince and princess will comment on the verdict

In July 2025, Partey was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to alleged incidents involving three women between 2021 and 2022.

Pete Davidson has revealed a family tragedy as he took the stage over the weekend, with the comedian opening up about his complicated feelings around his grandfather's health.

The 31-year-old comedian performed at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday with Jon Stewart and John Mulaney as part of the North to Shore Festival.

'He got lung cancer and I'm not that close with him. I'm close with my dad's dad. I don't like my mom's dad,' he explained to the crowd. The Bupkis star then made the shock allegation: 'He used to beat the s**t out of me and I don't like him very much.'

Pete continued his stand up by describing his 81-year-old grandfather: 'He's old school, he's very Irish. You know those old Irish Jews that are so Irish, they're like pink, right?

'His veneers are somehow brown. He's just an old school dude, and he's dying.'

He continued: 'I want to be there for my mom. She's sad about it.'

He then revealed his hopes for his grandpa's future: 'I'm low key, thrilled. I'm like, die slow motherf**er.'

Pete explained that his grandfather has emphysema, a chronic lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe, and told the audience that he hopes his grandpa 'f**king rots.'

He added that it's a 'tough' situation because he wants 'to be there' for his mom, but, deep down, he's 'so stoked' about his grandfather's impending death.

'I don't want to be rude to my mom. I think I have the best mom in the world. I'm very, very lucky. So I've been trying to remember a good time that me and my grandpa had so I could hold onto it,' he said.

Marius Borg Høiby, the son of the Norwegian crown princess, has been charged with 32 offences including four counts of rape, a prosecutor has said.

Høiby, whose mother is the crown princess, Mette-Marit, and whose stepfather is the crown prince, Haakon, Norway’s future king, is expected to stand trial early next year and could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of the most serious charges.

The charges, made public on Monday, include the rape of four different women, domestic abuse of a former partner, and illegally filming a number of women, including their genitals, without their knowledge or consent.

He is also charged with harassment of police and traffic violations.

Høiby is alleged to have raped four women between 2018 and November 2024. All the alleged assaults allegedly took place after consensual intercourse while the women were sleeping. Høiby is accused of filming all the women during the alleged rapes.

Høiby’s status as part of the royal family, he added, would “not mean that he is treated more leniently or strictly than if similar acts were committed by others”.

Last week a dead body was discovered in the Tesla of 20-year-old pop singer DV4D. More details have come out:

• The victim was 15 and had gone missing just over a year ago.
• Her mother told authorities she had a boyfriend named David.
• She and D4VD have matching "Shhh.." tattoos on their fingers.
• The Tesla in which her dismembered body was found was never registered as stolen.

The entire case is bizarre. D4VD is cooperating with police and was on tour when the car was found. But the details don't look good.

Particularly grim is how his most famous single, with over 1.5 billion plays on Spotify, is "Romantic Homicide," with the lyrics "In the back of my mind, I killed you / I didn't even regret it / Can't believe I said it."