15 Facts About Crispin Odey

Robin Crispin William Odey was born on January 1959 and is a London-based hedge fund manager and the founding partner of Odey Asset Management.

Crispin Odey was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the only son of Richard Crispin Odey.

Crispin Odey's father was from a family of Yorkshire industrialists, and his grandfather George Odey, "a formidable bully", had been the Conservative MP for Beverley.

Crispin Odey was educated at Harrow School, where his father had been head boy, and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1980 with a degree in history and economics.

Crispin Odey ran continental European pension funds at Framlington and Barings.

Crispin Odey continued his short positions into early 2009 but in April took longer positions as he predicted the market rally of that year.

Crispin Odey was at the centre of further controversy in 2009 when it was suggested that he financially backed anti-EU campaigners in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty while some hedge funds had taken out specific bets on the insolvency of the country in the event that the vote not be carried.

In faxes sent to RTE and TV3, Crispin Odey denied that he had funded the Libertas 'no' campaign.

In 2016, Crispin Odey was a prominent backer of Brexit, arguing it would allow the UK to govern itself.

Crispin Odey had assumed there would be a crash resulting from high interest rates.

Crispin Odey was briefly married to Rupert Murdoch's eldest daughter, Prudence.

Crispin Odey subsequently married Nichola Pease, deputy chairman of JO Hambro Capital Management and a member of one of the founding families of Barclays Bank.

Crispin Odey had no children by his first wife, and two sons and one daughter by his second wife.

In May 2020, Crispin Odey was charged with indecent assault following a complaint by a woman over an incident in 1998.

Crispin Odey denied the charge at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 28 September and he was bailed to appear at Hendon magistrates' court on 17 February 2021.