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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Norway’s crown princess says she was ‘deceived’ by Jeffrey Epstein

Crown princess Mette-Marit
Mette-Marit appears to be mentioned nearly 1,000 times in the Epstein files in personal email exchanges between 2011 and 2014. Photograph: Andreas Fadum/dana press/Shutterstock

Norway’s crown princess, Mette-Marit, has said she was “manipulated and deceived” by Jeffrey Epstein as she spoke publicly for the first time about her years-long relationship with the late sex offender.

She also claimed that she “did not know he was a sex offender or an abuser” – despite telling him in an email in 2011, three years after he had been sentenced to 18 months in prison and pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from girls as young as 14, that she had recently Googled him.

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