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Hollywood mogul Barry Diller who came out as gay now insists he was NEVER 'closeted'
The former Paramount Boss says in the book he knew he was gay from the age of 11.
His friend, Michael Eisner, outed him to Disney executives in 1995, writing in an internal board memo that 'the fact that he is homosexual should have no weight' when considering him for the role of CEO of the company, The Times reported. The first time he met the 'deliriously glamorous' fashion queen von Furstenberg at a super-smart Manhattan dinner party in 1974, she'd rudely brushed the reserved movie man aside to talk to someone else. As Diller describes it, he was an outsider in her snooty world: 'I was standing alone next to the fireplace feeling I did not belong in this group when "Prince" Egon von Furstenberg [Diane's first husband] walked up to me and said, "Your pants are too short."'
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