“HE WAS SENTENCED TO PRISON… NOW HE’S BACK HOME.” ⚖️👑😳 — A SHOCKING NEW TWIST IN A CASE THAT HAS ROCKED NORWAY’S ROYAL FAMILY IS RAISING FRESH QUESTIONS Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been released from prison and placed under house arrest with electronic monitoring while appealing parts of his sentence. The 29-year-old was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted on multiple charges, including rape, in a case that has cast a long shadow over the Norwegian royal family. Although he does not hold an official royal role, the developments have drawn intense public attention.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway’s son Marius Borg Høiby is out of prison and on house arrest as he appeals his sentence for rape and other charges.

On Tuesday, July 14, VG reported that the Norwegian Crown Princess’ 29-year-old son will be transferred from jail, heading out on house arrest with electronic monitoring for the next four weeks as he appeals his sentence.

The Norwegian outlet said that Marius will stay at a home near Skaugum, the royal residence of his mother and stepfather, Crown Prince Haakon, in Asker.

PEOPLE has contacted the Royal House of Norway for comment.

The Royal House’s head of communication, Guri Varpe, told Nettavisen that the Crown Prince couple hopes to support her son while in custody.

“The Crown Prince and Princess wish to assist him in the phase he is currently in,” Varpe said.

Marius is Mette-Marit’s son from a relationship before her 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, heir to the Norwegian throne, and Marius does not hold a working royal role.

Marius has been in custody since early February when he was arrested on charges of alleged assault, violating a restraining order and threatening another person with a knife days before a major trial where he faced 38 charges of alleged sexual abuse and assault began.

The six-week trial gained great attention in Norway and cast a shadow over the Norwegian monarchy, though Marius is not in the line of succession to the throne and does not conduct royal duties.

On June 15, he was sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of numerous offenses, including two counts of rape, and received a two-year restraining order against one of his victims. The decision was announced nearly two years after he was first arrested for allegedly attacking a 20-year-old woman in August 2024. From there, former partners came forward to share their own allegations, and the case expanded, Hola! reported, and he was charged with 32 counts, including rape and sexual abuse, in August 2025.

Marius has appealed some aspects of the sentence, which is not final, according to Nettavisen, and he most recently appeared in Oslo District Court on July 13. The court determined there that there was risk of recidivism and that he should be held in custody for four more weeks, but that can happen at home with an anklet, per VG.

According to NRK, there was concern about a potential risk of offenses around a person identified as “the Frogner woman,” whom Marius was most recently in a relationship with, though he insisted in court on Monday that they had both moved on.

“If she shows up at my door one day, I’ll have to call the police. I don’t want any contact with her,” he said then.

The updates come as the palace announced on July 14 that Crown Princess Mette-Marit, 52, was discharged from the hospital following a lung transplant. The Royal House announced on June 17 that she had had the surgery as her health had worsened in the years since the announcement of her diagnosis of chronic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung condition, in 2018.

The Crown Princess released a personal message in the palace announcement and underscored that she was “deeply grateful” for organ donors, her family, her care team and the well-wishers from around Norway.

“Through organ donation, I have been given the gift of life. Words fail me as I try to express how profoundly grateful and humbled I am,” Mette-Marit said.

SOURCE: PEOPLE