{"id":44872,"date":"2026-03-20T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44872\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:11:10","slug":"norways-crown-princess-talks-about-her-ties-to-epstein-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44872\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway’s crown princess talks about her ties to Epstein for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 Norway\u2019s crown princess<\/a> said she was manipulated and deceived by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with the American financier at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion.<\/p>\n

Mette-Marit is married to Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the throne. She and Haakon spoke Thursday to Norwegian broadcaster NRK in a 20-minute interview<\/a> that occurred the same day the criminal trial against her son, Marius Borg H\u00f8iby<\/a>, concluded.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have sought a prison sentence of seven years and seven months for the charges against H\u00f8iby, who denies the rape allegations<\/a>. He is Mette-Marit\u2019s son from a previous relationship. A verdict is expected in early June.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s NRK interview did not contain any explosive revelations but marked the first time the royal couple has sat down with reporters to address the fallout over the crown princess\u2019 ties to Epstein. Their relationship<\/a> has raised questions over her judgment, though she is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The interview was time-limited due to Mette-Marit\u2019s health; she has pulmonary fibrosis<\/a>, which causes serious breathing problems.<\/p>\n

Mette-Marit has previously apologized for the situation she put the royal family<\/a> in. She first met the financier in 2011 and their contact continued into 2014. The Epstein files contained several hundred mentions of the crown princess, who said in 2019 she regretted having had contact with him.<\/p>\n

Epstein killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused underage girls at his homes in the U.S. Mette-Marit told NRK she didn\u2019t know he was a sex offender and abuser, she only saw him interact with adults and never witnessed anything illegal.<\/p>\n

She also told NRK she feels a sense of guilt for Epstein\u2019s victims and has spent years processing their relationship and the allegations against him. She said she takes responsibility for not researching his background thoroughly.<\/p>\n

The Epstein files include email exchanges between the two, and showed a relationship that some perceived as a close friendship. In one message, Mette-Marit wrote to Epstein, \u201cyou tickle my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October 2012, Epstein wrote that he was in Paris \u201con my wife hunt.\u201d Mette-Marit replied that Paris was \u201cgood for adultery\u201d but \u201cScandis\u201d were \u201cbetter wife material.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another set of messages, the emails showed that Mette-Marit borrowed an Epstein-owned property in Palm Beach, Florida, for several days in 2013. Mette-Marit said the stay was arranged through a mutual friend, and it was this visit that resulted in the encounter that left her feeling so unsafe she called Haakon at home.<\/p>\n

She declined to elaborate during the NRK interview, but said she continued her contact with Epstein because she was gullible and had been manipulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 Norway\u2019s crown princess said she was manipulated and deceived by the late sex offender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[25494,157,25493,156,24269],"class_list":{"0":"post-44872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-mette-marit-epstein","9":"tag-norway","10":"tag-norway-crown-princess","11":"tag-oslo","12":"tag-princess-mette-marit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116263326991734622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}