“[Barry Diller] and Diane von Furstenberg kept exchanging knowing looks across the table. They have a Les liaisons dangereuses bond, it seems—today’s Valmont and Merteuil. A complicity of past secrets now mellowed into worldly friendship that continues to advance both.”
Tina Brown, January 16, 1991, Vanity Fair Diaries
Tina Brown, January 16, 1991, Vanity Fair Diaries
Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, 1990; Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
Tina Brown wrote the above diary entry after a dinner Henry and Nancy Kissinger hosted in their New York City apartment at the River House. The party happened to coincide with the (first) invasion of Iraq, and instead of formal dinner conversation, all focus was on the televised CNN reports of the aerial bombing. Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg were among the guests, and they, like most everyone and everything else relevant to the Vanity Fair zeitgeist, did not escape Brown's savant-like ability to see all the trees without for even one second, losing sight of the forest.
Diller was then Chairman of 20th Century Fox working for Rupert Murdoch (who was also among the guests that night). A recurring theme in Tina Brown's diaries was Diller's attempts to convince Brown to make movies for his studio. She never took the bait but later went to work for him as founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.
Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg had an on-again/off-again relationship since their Studio 54 days with Andy Warhol in the 1970s. They finally married in 2001.
Diller was then Chairman of 20th Century Fox working for Rupert Murdoch (who was also among the guests that night). A recurring theme in Tina Brown's diaries was Diller's attempts to convince Brown to make movies for his studio. She never took the bait but later went to work for him as founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.
Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg had an on-again/off-again relationship since their Studio 54 days with Andy Warhol in the 1970s. They finally married in 2001.
Image Credit: Journey of a Dress
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