He's an old Harrovian multi-millionaire with a wife and two girlfriends – and he's the toast of California. Why …

Aubrey de Grey, 51, believes he will unlock secrets to huge advances in life The former Harrow School and Cambridge scholar is a biomedical theorist He has a hugely rich and influential following in Calfornia's Silicon Valley Raised in Chelsea, he inherited 11million when his mother passed away It's been invested in his Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence The eccentric claims: 'Aging is a disease that can and should be cured'

By Caroline Graham for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 16:08 EST, 11 April 2015 | Updated: 16:40 EST, 11 April 2015

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Aubrey de Grey (pictured) says ageing is a 'disease that can and should be cured'

With his Rasputin beard and lines etched deep into his forehead, Aubrey de Grey looks like a man a lot older than his 51 years. A penchant for beer, fried food and an aversion to exercise could fool you into believing the lanky ex-public schoolboy cares little about ageing.

But you would be wrong.

For de Grey, a charismatic Harrow School and Cambridge-educated biomedical theorist, firmly believes there is no reason, with the right 'therapies', why any of us shouldn't reach 500, 1,000 or even 5,000 years of age.

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