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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Money and the ability to shag whomever they want on the side.
Meaningless is right. For those who can’t quite place the name, Diller and Murdoch founded Fox News. What he does, or did, with his wrinkled willy is roughly as interesting as carpet lint. But he has a book to flog.
Barry is a billionaire, with a B.
And a powerful media figure.
Yes, the money for sure.
But as you point out, there is the “fag hag” phenomenon with college girls who aren’t doing it for money or fame or freedom.
Gay? Bi?
I’m confused!
At 83, he’s just reminiscing................
It’s a very difficult decision for me, and requires great courage ...
But I’m “coming out”.
I’m a natural XY man, married faithfully to a natural XX woman for life.
That’s right: I’m NORMAL!!! Get Used To It.
It’s just sooooo liberating to make that public and be able to live life as I truly am ....
Yes, I suppose that’s it.
Those as I pointed out above, there’s a college girl “fag hag” phenomenon that doesn’t offer either advantage—or fame.
Her dresses were classy!
Not the whole article. Scroll further down:
"Diller - a prominent Democratic donor who voiced support for Kamala Harris last year - also revealed how years before the two met, he was secretly cruising for men in West Hollywood as a teen.
"This was before his professional stock would rise, starting in the 1960s and 1970s.
"He also detailed a trip to gay haven Fire Island Pines during this time, where he says he was so overwhelmed by the free and open homosexuality on display that he fled the barrier island solo on a boat."
Andrew “Dice” Clay settled that issue:
“Either you sxxk dxxk or you do not sxxk dxxk. There is no ‘bi’.”
I’m just a naive Christian man, so I understand nothing about this!
I’m a just horribly depraved barbarian and Andrew “Dice” Clay is (was?) a hilarious comedian who gave me a lot of good laughs.
Faggots everywhere. We’re the new Sodom
But they also do it for far less. Obviously, not most women, but a significant subset.
I’m wondering whether they had a bad early experience to keep them away from being vulnerable to hetero men.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
So is Barry.
Sounds like he got that idea from Marathon Man.
Barry Diller is a ho-moe.
This is breaking news to whom?
Gay? Bi?
I’m confused!
“You either s___ d___, or you do not s___ d___!”
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