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The Ledger / Barry Diller

Barry Diller

$4.7BCommunication ServicesForbes #767US

◼ Origin

Born 1942 in San Francisco, Diller began as a mail clerk at William Morris Agency and rose through ABC, Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox before founding Fox Broadcasting with Rupert Murdoch. He later built IAC/InterActiveCorp into an internet conglomerate through serial acquisitions including Expedia, Match Group, and Angi.

◼ Self-Made Verdict — YES

Diller began as a mail clerk with no inherited business, built a network television division at ABC from scratch, and assembled IAC through executive skill and capital deployment over 50 years. His fortune is self-made.

◼ Documented marks

01

Controls IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IAC) through supervoting Class B shares, giving him outsized voting power relative to economic stake

02

IAC portfolio has included Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid), Vimeo, Angi, Dotdash Meredith, and Ask.com across serial acquisitions and spin-offs

03

FTC sued Match Group (IAC subsidiary) in 2019 alleging Match.com used fraudster-generated fake love-interest ads to lure free members into paid subscriptions; settled for $14 million in 2025

04

Delaware Chancery Court approved a $30 million shareholder class action settlement in June 2025 over alleged unfair process in the 2019 Match Group reverse spinoff

05

Former live-in partner to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg; openly gay — one of the first major Hollywood executives to publicly come out

06

Controls IAC through a dual-class share structure: holds approximately 8.1% of equity but approximately 42.5% of total voting power via Class B supervoting shares carrying 10 votes each versus 1 for Class A

07

Attempted in 2016 to create non-voting Class C IAC stock to entrench his control permanently; abandoned after CalPERS sued and a Delaware court ruled the plan violated shareholder rights

08

Serves as Chairman and Senior Executive of both IAC and Expedia Group simultaneously

09

Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Match.com) was majority-owned by IAC before its full spinoff in 2020

10

Stepson Alex von Furstenberg implicated alongside Diller in the 2022 SEC/DOJ Activision Blizzard insider-trading investigation

No inheritance, or primary accounts documented for this billionaire yet.

◼ List of charges

Total sentence

00 years

That is

0.00.0 life sentences

(using 78 years as one life)

At $1 million per day

Barry Diller's fortune would last 13 years

0.2 lifetimes of luxury — before running out.

These are moral charges, not legal ones. The actual legal system has not — and will not — bring them.