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Barry Diller slams Irvin Azoff as an 'infidel' as the moguls' feud still simmers 15 years after Live Nation spat

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There’s still bad blood between industry giants  Barry Diller  and  Irving Azoff , 15 years after Azoff, 78, pushed Diller, 84, out of Live Nation. In a recent interview, Diller referred to the famed Eagles manager as an “infidel” and “dread Irving Azoff,” alleging Azoff was the Judas of the Live Nation board. A federal jury found this month that Live Nation and Ticketmaster overcharged ticket buyers and operated as a monopoly. Diller — who helped orchestrate the merger in 2010 — told podcaster  Graham Bensinger : “Merging them was brilliant… whatever, it’s true it was brilliant. Putting those two together was absolutely right. Here’s the company that dominated ticketing and here’s the company that dominated producing and distributing live events. Perfect merger.” Irving Azoff attends Barry Gibb Press Conference on August 10, 1983 at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.…

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