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In a gesture from Disney, Lerner had been named honorary president of The Walt Disney Company Latin America in November with Martin Iraola<\/a> taking over in that post.<\/p>\n A private funeral was held for Lerner on Friday attended by close creatives such as Mariano Cohn<\/a> and Gast\u00f3n Duprat<\/a>, creator of \u201cThe Boss<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n A consummate company man, Lerner spent nearly 35 years at The Walt Disney Company, in a career which straddled pretty well perfectly the two great surges in the TV business over the last 30 years: the \u201clong expansion or \u2018golden age\u2019 of multichannel pay TV in the region,\u201d and \u201cthe strategic pivot toward streaming, Disney+<\/a>, and local production,\u201d noted Omdia Senior Research Director Maria R\u00faa Aguete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Argentina\u2019s Diego Lerner, a guiding force for The Walt Disney Company\u2019s roll out in Latin America and Europe from 1990 to this year, died Dec. 18 in Buenos Aires at the age of 71 after a long illness. In a gesture from Disney, Lerner had been named honorary president of The Walt Disney Company Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2207680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Diego-Lerner-an-Architect-of-Disneys-Overseas-Expansion-Dies-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207682,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207680\/revisions\/2207682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}