Barry Diller opens up about his sexuality and marriage to Diane von Furstenberg in revealing memoir
Diller wrote in an excerpt of his memoir that he was attracted to men, “but that was not a conflict with my love for Diane.”
In his new memoir, American businessman Barry Diller addressed for the first time decades of speculation about his sexuality and his marriage to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg.
Diller, the chairman and senior executive of IAC, an international media company, and chairman and senior executive of Expedia Group, an American travel company, married von Furstenberg in 2001, though their romance began more than 20 years before that, Diller wrote in an excerpt of his upcoming memoir, “Who Knew.”
In the excerpt, published Tuesday by New York magazine, Diller, 83, said he had only been interested in men until he met von Furstenberg when he was 33.
He said von Furstenberg was dismissive of him the first time they met, but the second time, at a dinner party for a mutual friend, Diller said, “I was instantly bathed in such attention and cozy warmth I couldn’t believe it was the same woman I’d been dismissed by a year earlier,” according to the excerpt.
At that dinner party, they talked alone on a sofa, and Diller said, “There was a glow around us that was setting off sparks, accurately described by the French as a coup de foudre.”
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