On The Diller-Malone Contretemps
And you thought that choleric media mogul and longtime bachelor Barry Diller was married to the glamourous Austro-Italian princess and CFDA head Diane von Furstenberg alone. Diller is also married — media businesswise — to Liberty Media’s equally-feisty mogul John Malone. That marriage is having a rough patch.
Diller is a billionaire Hollywood royal who rolled, once upon a time in the 1970s, with the Studio 54 crowd (Cue: “Don’t Leave Me This Way).” Malone, by contrast, is a ”brainy engineer,” with a doctorate who brawls with federal regulators and lives on the telecommunications side of FishbowlNY.
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