Norway's Crown Princess Talks About Her Ties To Epstein For The First Time

Norway’s crown princess said she was manipulated and deceived by nan precocious activity offender Jeffrey Epstein, and felt unsafe during a 2013 brushwood pinch nan American financier astatine his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion.

Mette-Marit is joined to Crown Prince Haakon, nan heir to nan throne. She and Haakon said Thursday to Norwegian broadcaster NRK successful a 20-minute question and reply that occurred nan aforesaid time nan criminal proceedings against her son, Marius Borg Høiby, concluded.

Prosecutors person sought a situation condemnation of 7 years and 7 months for nan charges against Høiby, who denies nan rape allegations. He is Mette-Marit's boy from a erstwhile relationship. A verdict is expected successful early June.

Thursday's NRK question and reply did not incorporate immoderate explosive revelations but marked nan first clip nan royal mates has sat down pinch reporters to reside nan fallout complete nan crown princess' ties to Epstein. Their narration has raised questions complete her judgment, though she is not accused of immoderate wrongdoing.

The question and reply was time-limited owed to Mette-Marit's health; she has pulmonary fibrosis, which causes superior breathing problems.

Mette-Marit has antecedently apologized for nan business she put nan royal family in. She first met nan financier successful 2011 and their interaction continued into 2014. The Epstein files contained respective 100 mentions of nan crown princess, who said successful 2019 she regretted having had interaction pinch him.

Epstein killed himself successful 2019 while awaiting proceedings connected charges that he sexually abused underage girls astatine his homes successful nan U.S. Mette-Marit told NRK she didn't cognize he was a activity offender and abuser, she only saw him interact pinch adults and ne'er witnessed thing illegal.

She besides told NRK she feels a consciousness of guilt for Epstein's victims and has spent years processing their narration and nan allegations against him. She said she takes work for not researching his inheritance thoroughly.

The Epstein files see email exchanges betwixt nan two, and showed a narration that immoderate perceived arsenic a adjacent friendship. In 1 message, Mette-Marit wrote to Epstein, “you tickle my brain."

In October 2012, Epstein wrote that he was successful Paris “on my woman hunt.” Mette-Marit replied that Paris was “good for adultery” but “Scandis” were “better woman material.”

In different group of messages, nan emails showed that Mette-Marit borrowed an Epstein-owned spot successful Palm Beach, Florida, for respective days successful 2013. Mette-Marit said nan enactment was arranged done a communal friend, and it was this sojourn that resulted successful nan brushwood that near her emotion truthful unsafe she called Haakon astatine home.

She declined to elaborate during nan NRK interview, but said she continued her interaction pinch Epstein because she was gullible and had been manipulated.