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 ...
Ask Arianna Huffington. She may have an opinion.
security trumps all
But they also like to have a "gay best friend." A safe man they can talk to about hair, and makeup, and fashion, and cry and console each other when their boyfriends dump them.
Gay men like hanging out with women because it makes them fell like "one of the girls" and they can discuss hair, and makeup, etc. with them.
For whatever reason this phenomenon does not work in reverse. Hetero men and lesbians don't hang out much together.
LOL. And in other news, the Pope is Catholic. This is not news, although ironically, as he got older, he has talked more and more about how much he loves his wife and probably means it.
Jewel-encrusted existence
Bookie takes all bets why.
What .
That guy has been well known Gay for 30 years .
People were shocked when he married her .
What was his point making this ridiculous comment ?
She has been his well known Beard for Decades .
Strange .
Bi is a canard
Any man sucks on another man’s penis and swallers and takes said penis in his butt orifice
And that’s the tame crap they do
Is a damn queer
They don’t screw women cause they like a vagina or tityies
I get so sick of hearing this bullshit
Be a Finook live it like champ
But don’t expect me to endorse it or believe the fairy tales
Real men like women their entire real estate down to the taint
Sorry this always bugs me
Weird people saying and doing weird things.
Just like when Barry Manilow came out as gay.
He actually thought people didn’t know..................
They have know each other for 50 years but married for 24. They can’t do math at the DM. Or read their own articles
She said she DIDN’T WANT REPUBLICANS TO BUY HER CLOTHES! I said OKAY, B*tch! No WONDER he turned GAY!
Good question for Big Mike.
The sexual behavior of mankind is probably the number one factor used against us by the devil and his minions.
That’s been known for a very long time. It’s even been in his wikipedia entry for years.
It has more to do with emotionality than with hair and make up. Lesbians and straight men are less emotional and wouldn’t bond in that way.
This headline is real. He said in the excerpt he was already gay and then he started a romantic, sexual relationship with her for many years, then they broke up for a decade, then have been together for the last 34 years.
Bury Diller... Sounds Gay
First of all, he said she was much wealthier than him, and also they had a passionate, sexual relationship. Not sure why so many Freepers promote homosexuality.
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