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Crispin Odey, certainly one of Britain’s highest-profile hedge fund managers and political donors, has been charged with indecent assault.
He’s alleged to have assaulted a girl over the age of 16, at an handle in Chelsea in July 1998, the Crown Prosecution Service stated.
Mr Odey, a backer of Brexit and Boris Johnson, was charged on 14 Could,
In a brief assertion, Mr Odey stated: “The allegation is denied and I’ll strongly contest this matter.”
The newest Sunday Occasions Wealthy Record says Mr Odey, 61, and his spouse are value £825m.
Mr Odey established Odey Asset Administration in 1991. He went to Harrow College after which studied Historical past and Economics at Christ Church, Oxford.
He owns a house in Swan Stroll, Chelsea, a Thames riverside road in Chelsea.
Within the run as much as the 2016 European Union referendum, Mr Odey donated greater than £870,000 to pro-Brexit teams.
He has additionally made the headlines up to now for spending about £150,000 on a Palladian-style stone temple to shelter chickens at his Gloucestershire mansion.