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Barry Diller comes out as gay 50 years after billionaire married Diane Von Furstenberg
Daily Mail UK ^
| May 06, 2025
| Staff
Posted on 05/06/2025 10:59:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
Billionaire Barry Diller has come out as gay - but insists he enjoyed a full sexual relationship with fashion designer wife Diane Von Furstenberg.
Diller, a renowned media exec who previously served as CEO for both Fox and Paramount, opened up about his homosexuality in a soul-baring article penned for New York magazine Tuesday.
The 83-year-old credited with creating the Fox channel wrote of Von Furstenberg: 'While there have been a good many men in my life, there has only ever been one woman.
'And she didn’t come into my life until I was 33 years old.'
Diller and Von Furstenberg enjoyed a jewel-encrusted existence after meeting in 1974, with the jet-setting pair splitting their time between ritzy New York, Connecticut, Los Angeles and Aspen.
They split during the early days of the disco era in the late 1970s, with Von Furstenberg subsequently hooking up with actor Richard Gere, whose movie American Gigolo was being produced by Diller at the time.
Diller told of how he bought Von Furstenberg with 29 diamonds for her 29th birthday - and ended up giving them to her in a Band-Aid box.
The pair enjoyed an on-off relationship and finally wed in 2001 - a union some dismissed as attempt to put to bed rumors of his homosexuality.
Diller has now confirmed that he is indeed gay and has always been attracted to men.
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To: Red Badger
Any kin to Phyllis Diller?
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:01:28 AM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One w!as a cylindrical object)
To: Red Badger
Yeah, well, Barry. Why this now at age 83?
Because it is all about you ... and always has been.
To: Red Badger
Probably a source of many of the conservative issues with Faux News.
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:04:59 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:05:11 AM PDT
by
Ge0ffrey
To: Red Badger
What makes women willing beards?
To: Red Badger
Von Furstenberg - whose wrap dress served as a symbol of women’s liberation in the 70s - has yet to issue a statement on her husband’s piece.
she made him gay?
The whole article is about his relationship with a woman.
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:06:53 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: Red Badger
My life is neither enriched nor diminished with this news.
To: Macho MAGA Man
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:08:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MtnClimber
Fox News and Fox Network are under different corporate owners, they only share the name.
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:12:18 AM PDT
by
LRoggy
(Peter's Son's Business )
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:12:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Antihero101607
My life is neither enriched nor diminished with this news.Yes, but culture is diminished by any instance where ungodly deviance is affirmed, celebrated, or even benignly tolerated.
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:15:00 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
To: Red Badger
DILLIGAFF?
Do I Look Like I Give A Flying F...?
To: Belteshazzar
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:16:00 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Antihero101607
This comes under the heading of meaningless noise. Who cares?
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:17:17 AM PDT
by
Gen.Blather
(I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
To: 9YearLurker
What makes women willing beards? In this case, the money was nice
In college, we called them "fag hags."
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:17:42 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Red Badger
What if all normal people came out as normal? Would it be in the news?
To: LRoggy
They’re all under the Murdochs.
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:22:55 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: I want the USA back
In this world, yes..................
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posted on
05/06/2025 11:23:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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