Feb. 4, 2026

"SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER ABDUCTED, 'DANCES WITH WOLVES' PREDATOR CONVICTED & NORWEGIAN PRINCE'S RAPE TRIAL BEGINS"

"SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER ABDUCTED, 'DANCES WITH WOLVES' PREDATOR CONVICTED & NORWEGIAN PRINCE'S RAPE TRIAL BEGINS"
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Reid Carter covers the disappearance of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother Nancy, believed abducted from her Tucson home with blood found inside and signs of forced entry - Savannah drops Milan Olympics assignment, flies to Arizona in what she calls the worst phone call of her life. Nathan Chasing Horse, the Dances with Wolves actor who ran a cult preying on Indigenous women and girls, convicted on 13 charges including sexual assault of a minor - faces minimum 25 years. Norwegian Crown Princess Metta-Mareet's son Marius Borg Hoiby's rape trial opens in Oslo as mother's Jeffrey Epstein emails resurface with devastating detail.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Wednesday, February fourth,

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twenty twenty six. Today's show anchor Savannah Guthrie is not

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in a newsroom this morning. She's in Tucson, Arizona, searching

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for her mother. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, was

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taken from her bed sometime late Saturday night or early

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Sunday morning. Blood found inside the home, signs of forced entry,

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personal belongings left behind, wallet, phone, car keys. An eighty

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four year old woman who can't walk fifty yards without help,

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who needs daily medication to survive vanished. Pima County Sheriff

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says she was taken against her will. FBI is now involved,

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no ransom demands, no suspects, and Savannah Guthrie just had

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what she's calling the worst phone call of her life.

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Nathan Chasing Horse, you'll remember we covered his trial when

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it began back on January sixteenth, the Dances with Wolves

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actor who played Smiles a lot in the nineteen ninety film.

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Prosecutors said he used his reputation as a Lakota medicine

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man to build a cult of up to three hundred

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fifty followers and prey on Indigenous women and girls. Friday,

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a Las Vegas jury convicted him on thirteen of twenty

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one charges sexual assault of a minor under sixteen, lewdness,

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child pornography. Faces a minimum of twenty five years in

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prison sentencing March eleventh. And in Norway, Crown Princess Meta

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Mariite's twenty nine year old son, Marius borg Hoybie, walked

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into Oslo District Court yesterday to face thirty eight criminal charges,

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four counts of rape, domestic violence, assault, drug trafficking. Seven

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alleged victims pleaded not guilty to the rapes. But here's

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the twist. He was arrested again on Sunday, the day

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before his trial started, on new charges of assault, knife threats,

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and violating a restraining order. And his mother her Jeffrey

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Epstein emails just resurfaced nearly a thousand mentions in newly

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released files, emails calling Epstein charming and sweet. Years after

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his guilty plea for soliciting a minor. Norway's royal family

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is in crisis. I'm read Carter today, a mother missing,

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a predator convicted, and a prince on trial. This is

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celebrity trials. Let's start in Tucson, Catalina Foothill's neighborhood. Quiet, affluent,

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the kind of place where million dollar homes sit behind

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landscaped yards and people know their neighbors. Nancy Guthrie lives

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there alone, eighty four years old, mother of three, grandmother,

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the woman who raised Savannah Guthrie, America's Morning anchor, after

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Savannah's father died of a heart attack during her high

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school years. Nancy raised those three kids by herself, and

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she's been living independently in Tucson for years. Saturday night,

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January thirty, first last confirmed sighting of Nancy Guthrie between

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nine thirty and nine forty five PM in her home.

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Normal evening, nothing unusual. Sunday morning, Nancy was supposed to

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be at church. She didn't show up. Nancy Guthrie always

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shows up, the kind of woman who doesn't miss church,

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who follows a routine, who people notice when she's absent.

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Around noon on Sunday, someone went to check on her.

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The house was wrong, blood inside, signs of forced entry.

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Nancy was gone, her wallet was still there, her phone,

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her car in the driveway, her keys, everything a person

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would take if they were leaving voluntarily all left behind.

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An eighty four year old woman doesn't walk away from

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her home in the middle of the night without her phone,

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her wallet, her car, and her keys, especially not a

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woman who can't walk fifty yards without assistance. Pima County

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Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed Monday that Nancy Guthrie was believed

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to have been taken from her bed against her will.

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His words, taken from her bed against her will. That's

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not a welfare check. That's not a missing person's case.

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That's a kidnapping. The Sheriff's department activated immediately. Homicide detectives

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assigned the home, declared an active crime scene, DNA evidence

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collected and sent for testing. FBI brought into assist a

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two five hundred dollars reward offered through the eighty eight

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Crime nonprofit for information leading to Nancy's recovery. But here's

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what makes this terrifying. Nancy Guthrie requires daily medication. Without it,

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her condition deteriorates rapidly. The Sheriff's office has said that

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going without her medication could be fatal. Fatal. That word

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changes everything. This isn't just a missing person, this is

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race against the clock. Sheriff Nanos said Nancy has no

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cognitive issues sharp as attack of sound mind. She's not

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someone who wandered off confused. She's someone who was taken

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and she doesn't have the physical ability to escape on

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her own, can't walk fifty yards, depends on medication to

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stay alive, and has been missing since sometime late Saturday

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night or early Sunday morning. That's days now. The investigation

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has raised more questions than answers. No ransom demands. Nobody

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has called the family or law enforcement asking for money.

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That's unusual in a kidnapping. If someone took Nancy Guthrie

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to extort her famous daughter, you'd expect a demand by now,

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unless the motive isn't money. Sheriff Nano's told reporters he

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doesn't believe the general public is in danger, but he

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also said he can't rule out that Nancy was targeted

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because of Savannah's fame. Can't confirm it, can't deny it,

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just can't rule it out, which means investigators are looking

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at everything, every angle, every possibility, including whether someone went

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after an eighty four year old woman to get to

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the woman who wakes up America every morning. There are

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no known threats against Savannah Guthrie, no stalker cases, no

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public disputes that would motivate violence against her family. But

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fame creates visibility, and visibility creates vulnerability, especially for elderly

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family members living alone. Now Savannah, she was supposed to

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be in Milan right now the Winter Olympics NBC's Marquee coverage.

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Savannah was scheduled to co host the opening ceremony on

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February sixth with Mike Tarico, one of the biggest assignments

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in broadcast journalism. Instead, she got a phone call. She's

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described it as the worst phone call of her life.

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Dropped everything, flew to Arizona immediately, traveling with a security team.

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The Milan Olympics assignment is gone. Someone else will co

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host the opening ceremony. Savannah Guthrie is in Tucson searching

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for her mother. She posted on Instagram a plea for help,

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for prayers, for tips. We believe in prayer. Please raise

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your prayers with us, bring her home. Her statement thanked.

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Supporters asked anyone with information to call the tip line,

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begging the public for anything, any detail, any sighting, any clue.

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The Today's Show has covered the story two days running,

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led the broadcast with it. Her co host's visibly shaken.

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Carson Daley said on air, I don't think I've ever

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prayed for anything harder in my life. Hoda Cutbee, Craig Melvin,

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Chanelle Jones all emotional. This isn't just a news story

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to them. This is their friend, their colleague, and her

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mother is missing. Anyone who watches The Today Show knows this.

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Nancy has appeared on air, been referenced in segments, Mother's

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Day tributes, Thanksgiving stories. The relationship between Savannah and her

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mother is something the audience has watched for you. Nancy

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raised three children alone after her husband died, taught them resilience, faith, strength,

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and now she's gone. Here's the pattern that concerns investigators.

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Elderly woman, living alone, affluent neighborhood, famous daughter, no security

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system that prevented entry, blood inside the home, forced entry,

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no belongings taken, no phone, no car, someone came for

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Nancy Guthrie specifically, didn't ransack the place, didn't steal valuables,

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took the person. DNA evidence is being tested. That takes time,

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but it could be the break investigator's need. Blood in

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the home, could belong to Nancy, could belong to whoever

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took her, could tell us if there was a struggle,

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how violent it was, whether Nancy was injured before being removed.

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The FBI's involvement suggests this is being treated with maximum urgency,

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federal resources, forensic capabilities, intelligence databases, the kind of tools

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local law enforcement doesn't all always have access to. When

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the FBI gets involved in a missing person's case, it

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means they believe there's a credible threat and the resources

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are warranted. Sheriff Nanos has been measured in his public comments. Careful,

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doesn't want to compromise the investigation, doesn't want to speculate.

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But the facts speak for themselves. Blood, forced entry, an

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elderly woman who can't walk on her own, no voluntary

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departure possible. This is an abduction. The question is who

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and why? And is Nancy Guthrie still alive? Every hour

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that passes without her medication makes the answer to that

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last question more uncertain. Nancy Guthrie is eighty four years old, mother, grandmother,

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a woman who raised her children alone, who should be

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in church on Sunday morning, who should be talking to

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her daughter on the phone, who should be safe in

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her own home. Bring Nancy home. We'll be right back.

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With the conviction of Dances with Wolves actor Nathan cha Horse,

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a medicine man, a cult leader, a predator, and a

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jury that said guilty on thirteen counts. Welcome back to

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celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter Friday, January thirtieth, twenty twenty six,

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Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County Courtroom. The jury returned its

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verdict in State versus Nathan Chasing Horse, guilty thirteen of

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twenty one charges. We brought you this story back on

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January sixteenth, when the trial began. Nathan Chasing Horse, forty

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nine years old, best known for playing smiles a lot

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in Kevin Costner's nineteen ninety Academy Award winning film Dances

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with Wolves. He was a teenager when he got that role,

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a young Lakota man from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

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Hollywood loved him, the indigenous community embraced him. He was

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supposed to be a symbol of Native American pride on

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the big screen. Instead, prosecutors say he used that fame,

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that reputation to build something monstrous Chasing Horse positioned himself

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as a Lakota medicine man, a holy man, a spiritual leader.

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He founded what followers called the Circle, up to three

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hundred and fifty people at its peak, mostly Indigenous women

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and girls, people who believed in him, who trusted him,

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who thought he had spiritual authority, and he allegedly weaponized

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that trust for nearly twenty years. The main victim in

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the Nevada case was fourteen years old in twenty twelve. Fourteen.

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Her mother had cancer was dying. Chasing Horse told the

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girl that the spirits demanded her virginity, that if she

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didn't submit, her mother would die. That if she told

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anyone what happened, her mother would die. That's not spirituality,

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that's not medicine. That's predation disguised as prayer, using a

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dying woman's cancer to rape her daughter. The assaults continued

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for years. The victim said she was trapped, believed him,

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believed the spirits would punish her family if she spoke.

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That's the power of a cult leader. You don't need

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locks on the doors when you've locked people's minds. Deputy

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District Attorney Biancapucci told the jury Chasing Horse spun a

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web of abuse for nearly two decades, exploiting indigenous traditions,

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manipulating vulnerable families, targeting women and girls who were already

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marginalized by poverty, by geography, by the isolation of reservation life.

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The jury deliberated and came back with their verdict guilty

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on thirteen counts sexual assault of a miner under sixteen,

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lewdness with a child, possession of child sexual abuse material.

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These aren't minor charges. These are the kind of convictions

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that end with decades behind bars. He was acquitted on

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eight charges, including the kidnapping counts. The jury apparently drew

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a line between the sexual offenses, which they believed were proven,

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and the more complex allegations around movement and control. But

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thirteen guilty verdicts is devastating enough to put Nathan Chasing

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Horse away for the rest of his functional life. Minimum

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sentence twenty five years. He's forty nine. Do the math.

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He'll be at least seventy four before he's eligible for

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anything resembling freedom, and that's the minimum the judge could

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go higher. Sentencing is scheduled for March eleventh. Clark County

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District Attorney Steve Wolfson released a statement, Exploitation and abuse

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will not be tolerated regardless of the defendant's public persona

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or claims of spiritual authority. That's the line right there.

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Public persona, spiritual authority neither protects you from accountability. Doesn't

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matter if you were in a Kevin Costner movie. Doesn't

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matter if three hundred and fifty people called you a

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holy man. You assault a child, you answer for it.

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Defense attorney Craig Muller said he was confused and disappointed

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by the verdict, plans to file a motion for a

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new trial, called the accuser's credibility into question standard defense posture.

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But the jury heard the evidence, heard the testimony, decided

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they believed the victims thirteen times over. And Nevada isn't

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the only jurisdiction with its eyes on chasing Horse. He

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faces charges in other states and in Canada. British Columbia

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has said it will assess next steps after the American

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sentencing and any appeals are resolved. The web of abuse

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apparently crossed state lines and international borders. This is what

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happens when a community places someone on a pedestal and

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nobody questions them when spiritual authority becomes absolute, when a

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famous face provides cover for unspeakable acts. Three hundred and

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fifty followers, women and girls who trusted him, and a

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fourteen year old who was told the spirits demanded her

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body to save her mother's life. Nathan Chasing Horse was

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smiles a lot in a movie. In real life, he

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was something much darker, and now a jury has told

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him so. The victims in this case were Indigenous women

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and girls, communities that are already disproportionately affected by sexual violence,

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communities where cases are underreported, where investigations are underfunded, where

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justice is rare. The fact that this case made it

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to trial, that prosecutors pursued it, that a jury convicted

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on thirteen counts, that matters. It matters for every Indigenous

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woman and girl who's been told nobody will believe her.

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Someone believed them this time, thirteen times. Sentencing March eleventh

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will be there coming up. A Norwegian prince walks into

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court on thirty eight criminal charges, including four counts of rape.

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He was arrested again the day before his trial started,

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and his mother, the Crown Princess, is drowning in Jeffrey

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Epstein emails. Norway's royal family is in freefall. Welcome back

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to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Oslo, Norway, Oslow District Court.

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Yesterday morning, February third, twenty twenty six, Marius borg Hoybee

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walked into the court room to face thirty eight criminal charges,

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including four counts of rape. Twenty nine years old, son

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of Crown Princess Meta Marite of Norway from a previous relationship,

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step son of Crown Prince Hagen, who is heir to

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the Norwegian throne. Marius has no royal title, no official duties.

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He's not a member of the Royal House of Norway,

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but he grew up in the Royal Palace, raised alongside

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the children of the future King, lived a life of

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extraordinary privilege, and now he's standing trial for rape four counts,

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spanning twenty eighteen to November twenty twenty four, six years

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of alleged sexual violence against multiple victims. Seven women are

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expected to testify against him over the course of this trial.

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Seven The charges don't stop at rape, domestic violence, aggravated assault,

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breaking restraining orders, transporting three and a half kilos of marijuana.

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That's nearly eight pounds, death, threats, traffic violations, thirty eight

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charges total, a catalog of alleged violence and criminality that

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reads like a case study and entitlement gone catastrophically wrong.

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Hoybe's plea not guilty to the four rape charges, guilty

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to some driving offenses and a drug charge. And here's

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where it gets interesting. Partly guilty to threats and aggravated assault.

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Partly what does partly guilty mean? It means his defense

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is going to argue about degrees, about context, about what

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constitutes a threat versus an argument about what constitutes assault

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versus a physical altercation. The trial is scheduled to run

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seven weeks until March nineteenth. Seven weeks of testimony, seven

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alleged victims, thirty eight charges. This is the biggest criminal

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trial in Norwegian royal history. But wait, it gets worse. Sunday,

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February first, the day before his trial opened, Marius Borg

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Hoybee was arrested again, new charges assault, threats with a knife,

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violation of a restraining order. The court granted a four

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week detention order, citing risk of reoffending. Risk of reoffending.

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The day before your rape trial starts, you get arrested

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for threatening someone with a knife. His defense is contesting

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the detention and considering an appeal. Make it make sense.

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You're about to stand trial on thirty eight charges, including

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four rapes. You know the world is watching, you know

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every move you make is under scrutiny, and you allegedly

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assault someone and threaten them with a knife the day before.

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If you wanted to hand prosecutors a gift, you couldn't

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have wrapped it better. Crown Prince Hockin released a statement

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measured careful. Royal said Marius borg Hoybee is not a

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member of the Royal House of Norway and is therefore autonomous.

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Autonomous translation, he's on his own. The Palace won't attend

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the trial, won't intervene, won't defend him publicly. The Crown

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Prince and Crown Princess Meta Marite will not be in

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that courtroom. Haken emphasized confidence in the Norwegian justice system,

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said the process should be allowed to run its course.

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That's the diplomatic version of we're not touching this. But

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here's the part that makes this story explode beyond one

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man's criminal trial. Crown Princess Meta Marite, Marius's mother while

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her son faces rape charges, she's facing her own reckoning

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with Jeffrey Epstein. Friday, January thirty, first new batch of

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Epstein files released, and Crown Princess Meta Marite is all

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over them. Nearly a thousand mentions emails between her and

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Jeffrey Epstein from twenty eleven to twenty fourteen. Let that

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sink in twenty eleven to twenty fourteen. Jeffrey Epstein pleaded

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guilty in two thousand and eight to soliciting a miner

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for prostitution, served thirteen registered as a sex offender. Everyone

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knew what he was. The conviction was public, the sex

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offender registry was public, and Crown Princess Meta Marie was

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emailing him three years later. The emails are devastating. She

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called him charming, sweet, said he tickled her brain, called

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him soft hearted. These aren't formal diplomatic exchanges. These are intimate,

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familiar messages between people who considered themselves friends. In twenty twelve,

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she asked Epstein in an email whether it was quote

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inappropriate for a mother to suggest two naked women carrying

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a surfboard for my fifteen year old son's wallpaper. She's

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asking a convicted sex offender about suggestive images involving naked

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women in the context of her teenage son's bedroom. Read

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that sentence again. They discussed Epstein's wife hunt in Paris.

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The Crown Princess replied that Paris was good for adultery,

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said Scandinavians made better wife material, casual joking, friendly banter

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with a man convic did of sex crimes against miners.

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In twenty thirteen, Meta Mariee borrowed Epstein's Palm Beach property

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for four days, his home where some of the abuse occurred.

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She stayed there, and in twenty eleven she told Epstein

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she had googled him. It didn't look too good, she wrote,

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with a smiling emoji. She knew she googled him, read

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what came up, and kept the friendship going with a

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smiley face. The Palace says she ended contact in twenty

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fourteen when she felt Epstein was trying to use the

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relationship as leverage too little, too late. Three years of

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emails after his conviction, borrowing his property, calling him charming,

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asking him about naked women for her son's wall, Meta

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Mariite released a statement Saturday, her words, I showed poor judgment,

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and I deeply regret having had any contact with Epstein,

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called it simply embarrassing, said she must take responsibility for

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not investigating Epstein's background more thoroughly not investigating his background.

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He was a convicted sex offense. It was on the

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front page of every newspaper in the western world. She

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googled him and it didn't look too good. What more

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investigation did she need? She expressed deep sympathy and solidarity

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with Epstein's victims. But sympathy doesn't erase the emails, doesn't

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erase the property stays, doesn't erase the friendly banter with

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a predator. She'd already apologized once back in twenty nineteen,

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when her Epstein connections first became public, But these new

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files contain details that make the twenty nineteen apology look hollow.

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The depth of the friendship, the casual tone, the joke

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about naked women and her teenage son, the smiling emoji

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after googling a sex offender. So here's the picture for

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Norway's royal family right now. The Crown Princess's son is

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on trial for four rapes thirty eight charges total, arrested

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the day before his trial on new allegations. The Crown

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Princess herself is buried in Jeffrey Epstein emails that show

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she maintained a friendly relationship with a convicted sex offender

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for years. The Crown Prince is trying to distance the

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monarchy from both crises while maintaining public confidence. And this

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isn't even the only scandal. Crown Prince Hakin's sister, Princess

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Martha Luise, married an American self proclaimed shaman named Durrek

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Verat in twenty twenty four. Her business ventures and his

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mystical claims have drawn criticism for years. Norwegian royal expert

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Tovi Talisen described the last year and a half as

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shocking for the Norwegian people. Said the country loves its

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royal family, said there's compassion for what the royals are

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going through, but the Hoybee trial, combined with the Epstein emails,

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is testing that goodwill. King Harold is eighty eight years old,

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still serving, still popular, the monarchy itself still supported, but

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the institution is being battered from every direction. A prince

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on trial for rape, a princess married to a shaman,

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a Crown princess linked to Jeffrey Epstein. How much can

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one royal family absorb before the public says enough. The

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trial runs until March nineteenth, seven weeks. If convicted on

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the most serious charges, Hoybee faces ten to sixteen years

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in prison. Mariusborg Hoybe grew up in a palace, had

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every advantage, every opportunity, every privilege a person could have,

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and he allegedly spent six years raping and assaulting women.

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Privilege isn't character. A palace address doesn't make you a

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good person, and a crown princess's son answers to the

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same laws as everyone else, at least in Norway. That's

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celebrity trials for Wednesday, February fourth, twenty twenty six. Nancy Guthrie,

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eighty four years old, believed abducted from her Tucson home,

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blood inside, forced entry, needs daily medication to survive. Her

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daughter Savannah, has dropped everything to search for her. If

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you know anything, five two zero three five one four

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nine zero zero. Nathan Chasing Horse convicted on thirteen charges

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sexual assault of a miner, lewdness, child pornography, The Dances

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with Wolves actor who used his fame and spiritual authority

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to prey on Indigenous women and girls faces minimum twenty

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five years sentencing. March eleventh, and Marius borg Hoybe's rape

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trial opened in Oslow. Thirty eight charges, four rapes, seven

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alleged victims. Arrested again the day before trial. His mother,

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Crown Princess Meta Marite, drowning in Epstein, emails, Norway's royal

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family and crisis. I'm reed Carter Tomorrow. Updates on the

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search for Nancy Guthrie and whatever else breaks. This is

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celebrity trials.