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Here's a look at the life of media mogul Barry Diller.
Birthdate: February 2, 1942
Place of birth: San francisco California
Birth name: Barry Charles Diller
Father: Michael Diller, real estate developer
Mother: Reva (Addison) Diller
Marriage: Diane von Furstenberg (2001-present)
Education: He attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
He dropped out of UCLA after less than a year.
He is credited with popularizing made-for-television movies.
Owner of the sailboat Eos, one of the largest private sailboats in the world.
He married fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg in 2001, 26 years after they met.
Diller has stated that he considers von Furstenberg's children, Alexander and Tatiana, as his own.
He is a member of the board of directors of The Coca Cola Company.
1961-1966 – He works at the William Morris Agency. Diller starts in the mailroom and works his way up to agent.
1966-1974 – He works at ABC, becoming vice president of prime-time television. During this time, Diller creates ABC's “Movie of the Week.”
1974-1984 – Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures Corporation.
1984-1992 – President and CEO of Fox, Inc.
1986 – Launches the Fox television network.
1992-1994 – CEO of the QVC network.
1995-2010 – President and CEO of InterActiveCorp (IAC), formerly Silver King Communications.
2005-present- President and senior executive of Expedia, Inc.
2010-present- President and senior executive of IAC.
November 2014 – Diller and the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation announce plans to build a park on stilts over the water on the Hudson River in the Chelsea Pier neighborhood of New York City.
June 15, 2015 – A New York civic organization files court papers to prevent further construction at Diller's planned park. The civic organization expresses its concern about the environmental impact that the project would have on the city's seafront.
October 25, 2017 – Diller announces his intention to move forward with his plan to build a park on the Hudson River. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo helped Diller reach an agreement with environmental groups that opposed the project.
August 14, 2018 – Tinder co-founders and other former and current executives file suit against Diller's Match Group and its parent company, IAC. The lawsuit, filed in New York, alleges that Match and IAC executives intentionally undervalued Tinder to deny them billions of dollars.
August 20, 2020 – MGM Resorts announces that Diller has joined the company's board of directors, days after Diller's IAC purchased a nearly $1 billion stake in the Las Vegas-based global casino and hotel giant.
May 21, 2021 – Little Island, a park funded by Diller and the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation, opens to the public.
May 19, 2022 – Diller receives a limited casino license from the Nevada Gaming Commission.
