- A new scandal involving the Crown Prince of Norway's stepson
- This is not the first time that a man has come to the attention of the police
- Arrests were also made in September
- The offspring of a royal family with a colorful personality
A new scandal involving the Crown Prince of Norway's stepson
Marius Borg Heiby, son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit and nephew of the country's heir to the throne, has been detained by police. He is accused of sexual assault. This is not the first time he has been put behind bars - the 27-year-old has been detained twice already this year on different charges.
According to a statement by the Norwegian police, the crime of the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon's stepson, is "sexual contact with a person who was unconscious or otherwise unable to resist contact", reports The Guardian[1].
"All the police can report is that the sexual contact took place without intercourse. It is suspected that the victim could not resist," Norwegian law enforcement said.
Borg Heibi, who has had problems with the law in the past, pleaded not guilty. According to his lawyer, the preliminary accusation against the man was made by law enforcement officials, not by one of the alleged victims. Crown Prince Hakon's stepson was arrested when he was in a car with another victim in another case, which led to Mr Borg Heibi's arrest in August this year.
This is not the first time that a man has come to the attention of the police
Then, Oslo police arrived in the city center after a call. They were informed of a disturbance in a local resident's apartment. The details were not officially disclosed, but the media reported that a knife had been stuck in the woman's bedroom wall and that traces of various drugs had been found in Mr Borg Heibi's blood. The police stated that, according to their information, the victim, who had been in contact with the man who attacked her, org Heibi, did not suffer serious injuries[2].
Ten days after the incident, the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit issued an official statement in which he admitted his guilt, publicly apologized and said that he had ransacked the girl's apartment and beaten her while under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He also claimed to have a mental illness.
"I have several mental disorders which have caused me problems in my childhood and adult life and still do. I have long struggled with substance abuse, for which I have been treated in the past," Tatler quoted him as saying.
Arrests were also made in September
In September 2024, Borg Heibi was arrested again - and released the next day. This time he was accused of violating an order prohibiting him from approaching the victim (his ex-girlfriend, whom he attacked in August). He pleaded not guilty.
After the August knife incident in the flat, two more of his ex-girlfriends complained about Marius' actions. Juliana Snekkestad and Nora Holland, who was previously dating Crown Prince Hakon's stepson, told the police that they had been assaulted, and Borg Heibi denied these allegations.
"Borg Heibi admits to having been in a relationship on three occasions. He has already explained himself in one case. Hokland and J. Snekestad, he pleads not guilty", his lawyer told the press.
Afterward, the girls told the press the details of their experiences. Snekestad admitted that she was constantly subjected to psychological and physical violence. Hoklad said that her husband beat, strangled and kicked her[3].
"I thought I would keep quiet, but my ex's statement came out and it upset me. Marius says it was the first time. He asks for sympathy - "I will ask for help, I am fighting, my girl". It all sounded very familiar. When I broke up with him, he also said he would ask for help," the girl said in a video posted on the Norwegian portal Se og Hør.
Against the backdrop of these allegations, Crown Prince Håkon, who went to the Paris Olympics in August after his stepson's arrest, admitted: "When the police have to be involved in such a way, it is a serious matter. But at the same time, it would be wrong for me to go into the details of this case."
Borg Heibi's "achievements" include accusations of death threats against an unnamed man - he wrote messages to him on social networks calling him a "cursed dead man". In 2017, he was arrested for drug possession. All of this has led experts on royal family affairs in Norway to refer to Marius as "the black sheep". And the editor-in-chief of Se og Hør is demanding that the drug-addicted Borg Heibi be evicted from Prince Håkon's residence, the Skuagum estate in Asker commune. He moved there in 2022, after divorcing his wife, J. Snekestad.
The offspring of a royal family with a colorful personality
Marius Borg Heibi was born on 13 January 1997. His mother, Mette-Marit Heibi, the current Crown Princess and a waitress at the time gave birth to a son after a brief affair with a man called Morten Borg. At the time of the child's birth, Borg was in prison for a violent, drug-related offense. Until the age of two, the child lived in Kristiansand with his mother and her then-boyfriend, a local DJ. The couple divorced in 1999 and in 2000 met Crown Prince Håkon at the Meté-Marit music festival and moved to Oslo with their son. The following year they became husband and wife, despite public disapproval - few people in Norway liked the fact that the Crown Prince married a woman with a child. Crown Prince Håkon's stepson is known in Norway as "Little Marius" (after the novel's hero by the writer Alexander Hjelann).
Borg Heibi is not a royal family member, although he has occasionally appeared at public events. In 2017, after graduating from high school, he went to California College of Business Administration to study business administration but quickly dropped out. He returned to Norway, worked for a while as an intern for designer Philipp Plein and then as fashion editor of the British magazine Tempus (until it closed). There was a small scandal when it emerged that he had been named "Prince of Norway" on the editorial list, but the entry was later deleted.
In 2019, Borg Heibi returned from London to Oslo, where he became a regular hero in scandals involving more than violence and drugs. He was also convicted of reckless driving and using a diplomatic passport, even though he is not a diplomat.
