Academy Award-winner and The View cohost Whoopi Goldberg emphasized that, like many Americans, she works hard for her earnings in the November 12, 2024 episode. She said she could relate to the challenges faced by working-class individuals, adding that if she were incredibly wealthy, she wouldn’t be moderating ABC’s long-running talk show.
The discussion had taken a tense turn over Donald Trump’s potential second term and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s question to social media followers about their voting habits. Whoopi Goldberg said,
“I appreciate that people are having a hard time, me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here. Okay? So, I am a working person.”
She continued,
“My kid has to feed her family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there.”
Whoopi Goldberg supported Ocasio-Cortez's approach, noting that it was important to address people's concerns, often raised in conversations. However, she emphasized that one issue shouldn’t endanger the majority.
As per Celebrity Net Worth, the actress has a net worth of $30 million as of November 2024, and her yearly salary is $8 million. However, the Washington Examiner estimates her net worth as $60 million.
Besides an acting career, Whoopi Goldberg is also an author of children’s and non-fiction books and has performed on stage, including producing and starring in the 2010 Broadway production of Sister Act.
She co-founded Whoopi & Maya, a company that produced medical cannabis products aimed at relieving menstrual cramps for women, though it closed in February 2020. In 2021, she launched a new cannabis line called "Emma & Clyde," named in honor of her late mother and brother.
Exploring Whoopi Goldberg’s fortune
According to Celebrity Net Worth, her yearly earnings from The View stand at $8 million, while she earned $7 million from the 1993 movie Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. A November 2019 publication by the LA Times elucidates that Whoopi Goldberg purchased a home in LA's Pacific Palisades for $2.6 million. She listed it in January 2018 for $8.8 million and sold it the following month for $8.795 million.
Architectural Digest reported that she previously owned a 745-acre farm in Vermont, which she sold for $1.5 million, an apartment in Manhattan, which she sold for $3 million in 2010, and a Berkeley home, which she sold in 2015 for $2.05 million. Her main residence now is a large estate in West Orange, New Jersey, which she bought in 2009 for just under $3 million.
Alongside her role on The View, Goldberg has kept her acting career active with appearances in several notable projects, including TV shows like The Stand, Harlem, and a return as Guinan in Star Trek: Picard.
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She is also developing Sister Act 3 for Disney+ and shared with Jimmy Fallon last week that the script had to change after the passing of Maggie Smith, who was anticipated to reprise her role in the third installment.
Whoopi Goldberg also revealed the upcoming U.S. launch of the All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN), a global television channel dedicated solely to women’s sports. Since joining The View in 2007, she is the longest-running permanent host.
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