Relationship of Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, and Jeffrey Epstein

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The relationship of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (later Queen Mette-Marit) with the American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has become a major scandal for the Norwegian royal family. The pair were introduced in 2011 and maintained close contact until 2014. Media first reported on the relationship in 2019 in the context of the indictment against Epstein in 2019. At the time Mette-Marit minimized the contact, claimed a lack of knowledge of his crimes, and claimed to have broken off contact in 2013, a claim later disproven. In 2026, the newly released Epstein files showed extensive contact between Mette-Marit and Epstein over several years, and that she is mentioned over a thousand times in the released files. The Epstein files were released days before the trial of Mette-Marit's son Marius Borg Høiby on charges of rape. The files revealed that Mette-Marit admitted to Epstein that she had googled him and that the results "didn't look good" already in 2011, the year they first...

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