For three decades, Crispin Odey stood above London’s financial community, a larger-than-life financial mogul who was known for taking huge bets — and raking in big profits when they proved right. The likely dissolution of Odey marks a reckoning for its founder, who stood out from London’s pinstriped financier crowd with an aristocratic swashbuckler image and a willingness to take counterintuitive bets that made him lots of money. Odey; previous allegations were made by The Times of London, Bloomberg News and a podcast by Tortoise Media