Overview

• Police charged 28-year-old Marius Borg Høiby with 23 offenses—including three alleged rapes—after concluding a ten-month probe on June 27, 2025.
• Høiby was first detained on August 4, 2024, on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend and was arrested again in November 2024 for alleged sexual relations with an unconscious person.
• One rape allegation involves a well-known Norwegian television presenter at a Skaugum party in 2018, with investigators reporting they obtained video evidence.
• Additional counts against Høiby include sexual harassment, assault in a close relationship, threats, vandalism, breaches of restraining orders, insult to an officer and multiple traffic violations.
• Høiby, who holds no official royal rank, denies all charges as prosecutors at the Oslo District Prosecutor’s Office prepare a formal indictment.