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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I am sorry but I should give damn about an old attention whoring faggot why?
Another queer in Hollyweird, how is this news?
At his age I would put out a press release any time I could have relations with someone…gay or straight.
And, just like him….no one would care.
Barry Diller started a lot more than Fox News.
He ran ABC, Paramount, and many other media companies.
He was a giant in the Media world we have lived in since the 1970’s.
Just mentioning Fox News does a significant disservice to this guy’s work.
I always thought he was a jerk, but I am sure he doesn’t think highly of me either.
I think he also ran the Home Shopping Network for a while. And didn’t he head some cable system?
...Diller told of how he bought Von Furstenberg with 29 diamonds....
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What? She was a prostitute?
That was Roger Ailes, not Diller.
What is it about aged, rich conservatives? Killer, Gold water and Forbes all went gay ay an old age.
This has been widely known for decades.
Whatevah.
I doubt anyone can be gay enough to not be turned on by Diane Von Furstenberg, at least when she was young.
Another homo who thinks he has to tell people what everyone already knew years ago. I love it when these arrogant a-holes think nobody had already figured it out.
He’s a billionaire. Why does he feel he has to tell us about his private sex life?
I’d really rather not know.
But I see he was born in San Francisco. Went to the University of California, and is a Democrat.
Hardly shocking.
I am guessing this is some sort of announcement to garner gay support of some kind in some way he wants to head.
But really I’d rather not know.
Gawd, that woman is a hag.
I’m shocked!
Time has not been her friend..................
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