Lyle Trachtenberg
PEOPLE documents Goldberg’s third marriage to Lyle Trachtenberg in 1994 and their split the following year. ENTANGLED represents the short marriage as ended and keeps Goldberg’s later private life outside the claim.
Reviewed dating-history profile
Whoopi Goldberg
Creator, reality & media
3 reviewed relationship recordsCoverage: partial reviewReviewed 2026-08-10
Relationship status: No reviewed current partner is documented in this profile. That is not a claim that Whoopi Goldberg is privately single.
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Whoopi Goldberg relationship and dating history
These relationship records come from ENTANGLED’s reviewed public dataset. The profile remains a partial review rather than claiming complete knowledge of a person’s private romantic life.
David Claessen
PEOPLE’s 2026 account states that Goldberg married cinematographer David Claessen in 1986 and that the marriage ended in 1988. The record is limited to the sourced marriage dates and does not add unsourced private detail.
Alvin Martin
PEOPLE’s 2026 review of Goldberg’s relationship history identifies Alvin Martin as her first husband and gives the marriage as 1973–1979. ENTANGLED records only that documented marriage period and does not infer later private relationship status.
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How this dating history is built
ENTANGLED publishes direct romantic relationship records only after they clear the reviewed publication gate. Rumors and weaker records are excluded from this page by default.
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Editorial review date: 2026-08-10