Editing Alice Cooper (section)

===Marriage and relationships===
In the period when the Alice Cooper group was signed to [[Frank Zappa]]'s [[Straight Records|Straight label]], Miss Christine of [[the GTOs]] became Cooper's girlfriend. Miss Christine (real name Christine Frka), who had recommended Zappa to the group, died on November 5, 1972, of an overdose.<ref group=fn>Cooper describes how he fell for Miss Christine in his autobiography ''Me, Alice'' (1976).</ref> Another long-time girlfriend of Cooper's was Cindy Lang,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimesherald/obituary.aspx?pid=183427211 | title=Cynthia Lang Obituary | website=Legacy.com | access-date=February 11, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211131522/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimesherald/obituary.aspx?pid=183427211 | archive-date=February 11, 2018 | url-status=dead}}</ref> with whom he lived for several years.

After his separation from Lang, Cooper was briefly linked with actress [[Raquel Welch]], although according to Dick Wagner, Cooper rejected Welch's advances.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |first=Melissa |last=Whitworth |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/28/nosplit/ftcooper128.xml |title=Alice Cooper: 'Some people turn to God, I turned to golf' |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=August 28, 2007 |access-date=August 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829162342/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fportal%2F2007%2F08%2F28%2Fnosplit%2Fftcooper128.xml |archive-date=August 29, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cooper ended up marrying [[ballerina]] instructor and choreographer [[Sheryl Goddard]], who performed in the Alice Cooper show from 1975 to 1982. They married on March 20, 1976. In November 1983, at the height of Cooper's alcoholism, Goddard filed for divorce, but by mid-1984, she and Cooper had reconciled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/timelines/t-dada.php |title=Timeline – Dada |website=Sickthingsuk.co.uk |access-date=August 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723235442/http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/timelines/t-dada.php |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They have three children: daughters Sonora and [[Calico Cooper|Calico]], and son Dashiell.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/24/alice-cooper-my-family-values | title=Alice Cooper: My family values | first=Caroline | last=Rees | date=September 23, 2011 | access-date=April 7, 2020 | work=The Guardian | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701073223/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/24/alice-cooper-my-family-values | archive-date=July 1, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref>

Cooper and his wife started Solid Rock foundation in 1995. The first of several teen centers opened in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] in 2012. Another opened in [[Mesa, Arizona]] in 2021. The centers offer vocational and arts training.<ref name=Masley/>

In a 2002 television interview, Cooper stated that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they had been together. In the same interview, he also said that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with one's partner.<ref>The [[Johnny Vaughan]] Show, 2002.</ref>

In a 2019 interview, Cooper said that he and his wife Sheryl have a death pact, wherein they will die at the same time, sparking a flurry of headlines.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://jezebel.com/alice-cooper-and-his-wife-have-a-death-pact-1835786692/amp | title=Alice Cooper and His Wife Have a Death Pact | first=Emily | last=Alford | date=June 23, 2019 | website=Jezebel.com | access-date=October 20, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824230558/https://jezebel.com/alice-cooper-and-his-wife-have-a-death-pact-1835786692/amp | archive-date=August 24, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> But Cooper clarified his comments, telling ''[[USA Today]]'', "What I was meaning was that because we're almost always together, at home and on the road, that if something did happen to either of us, we'd most likely be together at the time. But neither of us has a [[suicide pact]]. We have a life pact."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/06/24/alice-cooper-clarifies-death-pact-story-wife-sheryl-goddard/1544830001/|title=Alice Cooper clarifies story about 'death pact' with wife Sheryl Goddard: 'We have a LIFE pact'|first=Hannah|last=Yasharoff|website=[[USA Today]]|access-date=October 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801094905/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/06/24/alice-cooper-clarifies-death-pact-story-wife-sheryl-goddard/1544830001/|archive-date=August 1, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>