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Barry Diller comes out as gay 50 years after billionaire began seeing Diane Von Furstenberg
Billionaire Barry Diller has approach out as male lover - but insists he enjoyed a full sexual association with fashion architect wife Diane Von Furstenberg.
Diller, a famous 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 include been a great many men in my life, there has only ever been one woman.
'And she didn’t approach into my existence until I was 33 years old.'
Diller and Von Furstenberg enjoyed a jewel-encrusted existence after rendezvous in 1974, with the jet-setting pair splitting their moment between ritzy Recent York, Connecticut, Los Angeles and Aspen.
They split during the early days of the disco era in the belated 1970s, with Von Furstenberg subsequently hooking up with player 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.
A Candid Revelation from a Media Titan
In a sincere and honest admission, billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, 83, has publicly reach out as gay. The revelation comes ahead of the release of his upcoming memoir Who Knew, where Diller explores the layers of his self, career, and long-standing partnership with fashion icon Diane von Fürstenberg, his wife of 24 years.
A Devote That Defied Labels
Diller recounts first meeting von Fürstenberg in 1974, describing a deep, magnetic bond that transcended traditional definitions. “We weren’t just friends. We aren’t just friends,” he writes. “Plain and uncomplicated, it was an explosion of passion that kept up for years.” Their romance, according to Diller, was very real—passionate, intimate, and enduring, despite his internal understanding of his sexuality.
Living Openly in Private
Barry Diller also details the delicate balancing act of being a gay dude in the hyper-masculine earth of corporate America. While never publicly closeted, he says he maintained a personal code: avoiding misrepresentation while never fully coming out. “It wasn’t courage—it was simply the minimum conditions of my conduct,” he reflects. “And I recognize it now
Matthew Aucoin's timeless mythology Eurydice opens at The Metropolitan Opera
Why is hell always so much more engaging than our own world? It’s not a place to spend eternity, or even a holiday, but it’s one we’re always more than happy to peer in on. Matthew Aucoin’s underworld in his telling of the Eurydice myth, concocted with awesome set design by Daniel Ostling, is a frigid place with black walls and a black lunar, more or less a dungeon. The underworld is the setting for the better part of Eurydice (which opened at the Metropolitan Opera in Mary Zimmermann's production after its initial run at Los Angeles Opera in preceding 2020), both in terms of artistic achievement and in occupying its most of the over two hours of stage moment. The fantastically imagined staging, with a libretto by Sara Ruhl (from her 2003 play), recounts the myth of Eurydice descending into Hades and organism retrieved by her composer husband Orpheus, only to be sent back to the depths when he breaks the pact and turns back to see at her before crossing into the world of the living. (A elated ending not included in this telling is set up after Orpheus’s own death, when the l
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