He is the chairman of The Aspinall Foundation, founded by his father, which has raised and released several zoo-bred lowland gorillas in Gabon.
When he was six years old, in 1966, Aspinall's parents went through a bitter divorce as a result of adultery by his mother.
[1] His father won custody and immediately sent him to Millfield, a boarding school in Street, Somerset.
She was the widow of the racing driver Piers Courage and daughter of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe.
[4] At age 16, Aspinall left school to travel the world and taught himself to play the guitar.
[12] Aspinall has said he has been adverse to marriage since in his opinion, divorce laws favor women such that rich men should not marry.
Freya is a model and Internet celebrity who left school at 16 to join her father at The Aspinall Foundation with the goal of eventually being chairperson.