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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/05/12/Barry-Diller-Profile?rss
| It's a few weeks before Barry Diller almost lost everything, and he is in his element, at the Four Seasons restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Movie producer Harvey Weinstein is here, as is activist investor Carl Icahn. Diller, uncharacteristically, is sharing the spotlight with CBS chief Les Moonves in a panel discussion about the future of media. Eventually, the subject turns to Diller himself, whose future at this moment looks precarious. For once, a man who has made a career of micromanaging his own myth is scriptless. The following week, a state court judge in Delaware will hear a lawsuit between Diller and John Malone , the media executive and erstwhile Diller ally who is threatening to strip Diller of everything: his control of IAC/InterActiveCorp , the internet company the two have been bickering over; Diller’s perch inside the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building, on Manhattan’s West Side; his reputation as one of the last of the badass brawlers in the media world; and perhaps most important, his peerless—and until now nearly flawless—ability to craft and maintain his own legend, even if IAC’s performance of late hasn’t exactly seemed to warrant it. ( View slideshow. ) “It’s very odd that two people who don’t want to give up control of anything are giving control to a judge in Delaware," Diller says. “It’s unfortunate.” Within a ... |
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