Overview

• In a new Variety interview published October 16, von Furstenberg dismissed questions about being married to a gay man, saying it “doesn’t change anything.”
• She said she encouraged Diller to publish Who Knew and its Audible version, emphasizing that the book chronicles his life beyond his sexuality.
• Von Furstenberg noted she was Diller’s confidant for roughly 50 years before he chose to share his sexuality publicly.
• Diller disclosed in May 2025 that he is gay, writing in New York Magazine that there had been many men in his life but only one woman, referring to von Furstenberg.
• The couple’s relationship spans more than five decades and they married in 2001; von Furstenberg also referenced her first husband, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, who was openly bisexual.