Whoopi Goldberg for Public Service. Goldberg serves on the national council advisory board of the National Museum of American Illustration. Goldberg has been married three times — in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter); on September 1, 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988); and on October 1, 1994 to the union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995). She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and Ted Danson, who controversially appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no plans to marry again, commenting "Some people are not
Gerald Jay Goldberg and co-founded "Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction". Goldberg is married to art critic, Nancy Marmer (formerly managing editor of "Art in America"). His brother, Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), was a well-known abstract expressionist painter. His son, Robert Goldberg (formerly TV critic for "The Wall Street Journal") is a prizewinning writer and filmmaker. Gerald Jay Goldberg Gerald Jay Goldberg (born December 30, 1929) is an American author. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, a novelist, critic, and (with Robert Goldberg) author of a nonfiction study of the network news and a biography of Ted Turner. Goldberg’s