During the Paris Olympics, a huge scandal broke in Norway’s royal house. Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon’s stepson Marius Borg Hoiby was arrested for assaulting a young woman who was possibly his girlfriend. Haakon’s wife Princess Mette-Marit avoided the Olympics as she dealt with her son’s situation, which unfolded slowly. Norwegian gossips said that Marius is well-known in Norwegian society as a violent sh-thead, in addition to being a wannabe reality star. Marius is 27 years old and he’s been getting into dramas for years, but this is the biggest problem they’ve had with him, as far as anyone knows. Well, it looks like Marius is now being charged with rape, but I’m not 100% clear if this is all part of the same incident from August, or if the victim is the same young woman.
The son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has been arrested on suspicion of rape. Marius Borg Høiby, the royal’s 27-year-old son from before her marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, was arrested on Monday, Nov. 18, in Oslo, according to the Oslo Police District.
In a release shared on Tuesday, Nov. 19, police said Høiby was arrested on suspicion of violating the criminal code “which concerns sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act. What police can say about the rape is that it concerns a sexual act without intercourse. The victim is said to have been unable to resist the act,” the release added.
Høiby is currently in detention in Greenland. Authorities have yet to decide whether he will be remanded in custody. Høiby’s arrest comes after he was previously arrested in August following an alleged incident involving a woman in her 20s.
According to Norwegian outlet Se og Hør, he reportedly “attacked” the woman “psychologically and physically,” and she was treated at a hospital for a concussion.
Høiby was held for 30 hours before being released, per the outlet, which also reported that police confirmed “a person was arrested and charged with assault and later released from custody.”
The 27-year-old was also arrested again in September for allegedly violating a restraining order, reported The Guardian.
According to the police’s release on Nov. 19, when Høiby was arrested, he was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident.
“The charge relates to another violation of a restraining order against the same victim. In addition, a report has been filed for violation of a restraining order and driving without a valid driver’s license,” the release added.
I completely believe that Marius is a ball of violence, predation and criminality, but I find this rather confusing – are there multiple victims, or did he terrorize and assault the same woman multiple times over the course of months? I’m not going to dig into it, because I suspect the victim or victims’ identities are being protected, as they should be. I hope she or they get a lot of support and help. I also hope Marius gets thrown in prison forever. What a huge scandal in the Norwegian royal house.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Marius’s Instagram.
It’s different women. There are now 3 women accusing him of violence, and 1 woman accusing him of rape.
Came to say that this is what I saw. Apparently Marius has a long history with substance abuse and violence, he’s been in and out of rehab, and his mother/ the royals were told about it by a past girlfriend. The violence coverup in addition to the evidence cleanup is part of the reason this exploded and why he might finally face consequences.
Last I had heard about Marius is that his step-dad, the Crown Prince, didn’t attend a royal engagement in order to take Marius to rehab. Did he leave already or are these charges connected to an older crime?
I heard that Princess Mette-Marit was trying to make the evidence disappear by using money. The real thing is it was not a surprise what did they expected yes his mother is not as wild as she was but in his age she and the baby daddy where drinking doing drugs, having to much fun, and both of them had problemes with the police, the father even was in prison for his drug problemes. It is so interesting that she was so welcomed in that royal family even with all the things that came out and was loved by the people but when Prince Harry married meghan, people in the UK and other countreys wished her not but the worst, and talked about her like she is some kind of sreal killer. It shows clearly that you can have drug problemes a abusive women beater son, or like prince Andy you can be pedo and you still be wlcomed and protected, but if you are biracial a strong hardworking women who likes to help people, you are on you’er own and they rip you apart
I am old enough to remember their wedding and the lead up to it. It was a controversial marriage but the reason why Haakon’s family decided to welcome her is because his parents had to really fight to be allowed to marry because Queen Sonja was commoner. They did not want to put their son through what they went through – and there were rumors that Haakon threatened to abdicate his role as heir if he did not get to marry Mette-Marit.
It would be nice to see a country actually hold a powerful white man accountable for his actions. That seems to be a rarity in many countries currently. My heart goes out to his victims.
Especially since it seems they’ve been covering for him for a while.
This young and violent and well protected from punishment. He’s not going to stop unless he’s in jail.
do you know what prisons in norway are like? he’d be better off locked up in a prison in some other european country
Could you elaborate? I have no idea.
The purpose of Norwegian prisons is to reform prisoners and not just simply punish them.
Whether or not that works for all types of criminals is another case, but the mentality behind our criminal justice system and seeking to aid in preventing relapses by criminals is why our prisons are the way they are.
Some people (not saying that’s anyone in this thread/post) sees prison as something that should only punish and hurt people rather than try to ensure that the people who leave prison do so having other options than having to return to crime in order to get by.
He would not be going to prison his mother and stephfather would made sure, there are rumors that his mother already trying hard to make evidence against him disappear
He looks like Prince Mordred.
He looks like the love (or hate, actually) child of Mordred and Joffrey.
They may have done their level best to keep this under wraps and now that it’s out there he will no longer be protected and he should have never been protected because he thought they would always fix it. Time to grow up and take responsibility for your actions. You will pay for your crimes.
I don’t understand why he can’t just chill out. You’re rich your mom will be queen someday go be useful and leave people alone. On top of this bullshit isn’t his mom sick like why is he adding stress on top of her illness?! He needs to be in prison. Hope his victims actually receive justice.
Mette Marit is not innocent in this case. Apparently, the police called her before her son was arrested and she tried to talk to his ex-girlfriend.
Yes to above Haakon did miss an event or MM did for the rehab
There was another article in the Norway papers that described how MM was alerted and went his apartment that is on the grounds of their house and probably did some cleanup (shady?). Also turns out he hosted parties in the royal apartment as stuff went missing
He’s a disaster. What was Haakon thinks back in 2000?
He should have divorced Mette Marit back when she started playing jet setter and was flying around attending fashion shows, parties, hanging out with Epstein, etc. instead if doing royal work. Would have saved him from all this mess.
In 2000 he was around 3 so probably Haakon was thinking, my girlfriend has a cute 3 year old son. Now he’s probably thinking, whew, not mine!
Joffrey Baratheon vibes
I don’t think it’s a problem that MM was a single mother or had her son out of wedlock, but her former partner and son’s biodad had a pretty awful criminal past–he’s a convicted drug felon. Her eldest son was likely both outrageously overindulged and terribly undermined–he’s not part of the succession, and he’s an outsider in his own family. He also likely gets his own way in everything to make up for it. Even so, he has to be answerable to all of his offenses–he needs to be charged with the same crimes anyone else would be charged with. Family meals must be incredibly awkward in the House of Norway.
I hope his victims get justice. This brings up a nasty consideration: the extent to which royals are totally above the law in practice
How awful it must be to know that your child has grown up to be an absolute piece of sh-it. But it does sound like M-M has been aiding and abetting after the fact, so she’s not much better.
If he’s arrested in Greenland that now makes this international. I assume that’s a different woman accusing him the family needs to find a tower and lock him up.
It said he was arrested in Oslo but confined in Greenland— that was confusing to me.
I get the confusion, but he’s not in Greenland the country. He’s in a police station which is in a part of Oslo called Grønland.
For anyone confused: Greenland is an area in downtown Oslo where Oslo prison/jail is situated.
Absolutely waste of everything. What a spoiled beast who never faced consequences. I hope he faces the full might of the law. The NRF needs to step out of the picture and let this criminal pay for his crimes.
My new favorite fact about this dude is that, apparently, he enrolled in a community college in California. And then dropped out.
Is this the situation of he could only get into a community college? A royal adjacent white man?
With all of the criminal behavior, is very telling.
It says in an article that he has admitted to mental issues… can’t help but wonder if MM was doing drugs while she was pregnant with him, which is exacerbating his issues. MM seems like an awful mother, though – indulging her son to the nth degree, to the point that he is doing all these awful things, and this is probably only the tip of the iceberg.