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Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller donate $30 million to MPTF

Designer Diane Von Furstenberg poses with Barry Diller backstage at the Diane Von Furstenberg Fall 2012 fashion show on Feb. 12, 2012, in New York. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images

(CBS/AP) For all its glamor, Hollywood also has its hardship. Hundreds of industry workers struggle with tough times each year and for 90 years, the Motion Picture & Television Fund has been there to help.

Now, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and her husband media titan Barry Diller's family foundation has donated $30 million to the MPTF.

MPTF board member George Clooney made the announcement of the donation on Tuesday.

"Seems impossible to me to have had success in the entertainment industry and not strongly support the MPTF," Diller said in a statement.

Besides providing health and social services, the Fund operates its historic Woodland Hills, Calif., retirement home, where Mary Astor, Hattie McDaniel, Johnny Weismuller and other stars of Hollywood's golden past once resided.

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