British anti-ageing scientist in Silicon Valley is suspended after intern claims he instructed her that ‘as an excellent girl’ she had a ‘duty to sleep with potential firm donors’
- Aubrey de Gray is chief scientist at SENS Analysis Basis in Silicon Valley
- The 58-year-old was accused of sexual harassment by two ladies on Tuesday
- Celine Halioua, 26, claims he instructed her to have intercourse with potential dinners
- Laura Deming, 27, alleged he spoke of his ‘adventurous love life’ when she was 17
An Harrovian who works as an anti-ageing scientist in Silicon Valley has been suspended by his agency after he allegedly ordered an intern to have intercourse with potential donors.
Aubrey de Gray, 58, who’s the chief scientist on the SENS Analysis Basis in Silicon Valley, was additionally accused of sexual harassment by a second girl on Tuesday.
Celine Halioua, 26, posted on-line about her encounter with the 58-year-old Cambridge graduate whereas working as an intern at SENS in 2016.
She claims she attended a dinner at which Mr de Gray instructed her that she was anticipated to have intercourse with different friends so as to solicit funds for the corporate.
‘Aubrey funneled me alcohol and hit on me all the night time. He instructed me that I used to be a “superb girl” and that as an excellent girl I had a duty to have intercourse with the SENS donors in attendance so they might give cash to him,’ Ms Halioua wrote.
Aubrey de Gray, who’s a director on the SENS Analysis Basis in Silicon Valley, was accused of sexual harassment by two ladies
Mr de Gray was on Tuesday accused of sexual harassment by Celine Halioua, 26, (left) and 27-year-old Laura Deming
‘I left that dinner sobbing. It has taken me years to shake the deep-seated perception that I solely acquired to the place I’m because of older males eager to have intercourse with me,’ she added.
Mr de Gray acquired an elite British training first attending the £42,000-per-year Harrow Faculty, adopted by Cambridge.
He has since grow to be the foremost advocate of medical tech to cease the ageing course of – a fascination of extraordinary rich tech businessman in California.
The pioneering gerontologist typically seems on podcasts and provides interviews to the press about his work within the subject.
Ms Halioua wrote the submit on the identical day as 27-year-old Laura Deming revealed a weblog about her personal ‘unhealthy expertise’ with Mr de Gray when she was 17.
Ms Deming claims that the London-born scientist wrote to her about his ‘adventurous love life.’
‘I did not count on a trusted mentor I might identified since childhood to hit on me so blatantly, and insinuate that it had been on his thoughts for some time,’ she wrote.
Mr de Gray was instantly positioned on administrative go away by SENS pending an investigation into the claims.
He responded on his Fb web page on Wednesday, writing: ‘Unsurprisingly, I deny these allegations.
‘What could also be extra shocking to you is that this: my perception is that each Laura and Celine have been deceived into the view that I’ve carried out many issues that I’ve actually not carried out. Nonetheless, since they’ve chosen to go public, I’m left with no alternative however to do the identical.’