Overview
- Norwegian prosecutors asked the court to impose a seven‑year‑and‑seven‑month sentence, with hearings concluding and a verdict expected in the coming weeks or months.
- The 29-year-old remains in preventive custody while facing roughly 40 charges that include four alleged rapes, degrading sexual conduct, assaults, threats and drug offenses.
- Høiby has admitted some assaults and other lesser crimes but denies the rape allegations, asserting the encounters were consensual.
- The Oslo trial is subject to strict reporting limits, including a ban on photographing the defendant and alleged victims during testimony.
- Royal repercussions continue: Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit visited Høiby in Oslo prison, and the Norwegian Association of Libraries ended her patronage over Epstein contacts as the palace cites a deterioration in her chronic lung disease for reduced duties.