March 20 (UPI) -- Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit said she was "manipulated and deceived" by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her first interview about the relationship that lasted years.
Mette-Marit, who is married to Crown Prince Haakon, had a long-term friendship with Epstein, as shown in their emails released in the Epstein files in February by the U.S. Department of Justice.
She said in the interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK that she "did not know he was a sex offender or an abuser." But one email in 2011 said she Googled him after he had been sentenced to 18 months in prison and had pleaded guilty to soliciting from girls as young as 14.
She said she now wishes she had never met him.
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