Breaking It DownLady Gaga’s Love Life: A Guide to Her Exes and Rumored Relationships

Lüc Carl

Gaga was in an on and off relationship with the NYC club promoter for years. They kicked off their relationship in 2005, long before she stepped into the spotlight, and finally called it quits in 2011.

In 2009, she told Rolling Stone that their relationship really “shaped” her.

“I sort of resolved that if you can’t have the guy of your dreams, there are other ways to give love,” she explained.

It’s unclear why they ultimately broke up.

Rob Fusari

During a break from Lüc, Lady Gaga dated her producer. For those who don’t know, Rob discovered the songstress and initially put her music on the map. That dated for a short time from 2006 until 2007, and he’s the one credited with creating her now-famous nickname. It’s unclear why their romance ended, but according to Rolling Stone it didn’t end well.

Matt ‘Dada’ Williams

Not much was known about this relationship, except that they dated for a short time in 2008. Matt also acted as the creative director for Haus of Gaga until 2010.

“Dada is quite brilliant and we were crazy lovers, but I stopped it when we discovered what a strong creative connection we had,” she said about their relationship in an interview with Evening Standard in October 2010. “I didn’t want it just to be about careless love.”

Taylor Kinney

As fans know, the singer and Chicago Fire star were together for four years. They first started dating after Taylor starred in Lady Gaga’s “You and I” music video.
“I remember it was a late shoot. We were shooting until 4 or 5 in the morning or something like that. We exchanged information. A few weeks went by and we kept in touch, and then that’s that,” the actor said on Watch What Happens Live in 2011.
Throughout their years together the stars hit multiple red carpets together and often shared swoon-worthy, PDA-filled pics. On Valentine’s Day in 2015, Taylor got down on one knee and proposed. At little over a year later, in July 2016, Lady Gaga took to Instagram and announced that they had broken up.

“Taylor and I have always believed we are soul mates,” she wrote at the time. “Just like all couples, we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break. We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We’re just like everybody else and we really love each other.”

Christian Carino

Rumors first started swirling that Lady Gaga was with Christian in January 2017 when they were spotted at a concert together. Reports hit the web that the two had gotten engaged in November 2017, but the songstress didn’t confirm this with fans until a year later. In October 2018, during Elle‘s Women in Hollywood event, she called the talent agent her fiancé and fans were shook to the core.

Right before she hit the Oscars stage in January 2019, it was reported that the couple had split. At the time, a source told Us Weekly that broke up because Christian “didn’t treat Gaga very well toward the end of their [two-year] relationship.”

“He was jealous. He was trying to find her all the time and texted her a lot. Her friends didn’t like him either,” the insider said.

Bradley Cooper

After their movie A Star Is Born was released in October 2018, fans were convinced these two were together. They further sparked romance rumors after cuddling up next to each other during a performance of the hit song “Shallow” during the 2019 Oscars.

In an interview with Elle magazine from November 2019, Lady Gaga denied ever being in a relationship with Bradley. She explained that they wanted fans to think they “were in love.”

“For me, as a performer and as an actress, of course we wanted people to believe that we were in love,” she said. “And we worked hard on it, we worked for days. We mapped the whole thing out—it was orchestrated as a performance.”

Daniel Horton

In July 2019, the songstress was caught locking lips with the music producer while on a date in Los Angeles. According to People, sources reported that the pair was most definitely more than friends. A few months later, in October 2019, Lady Gaga posted a snap of herself to Instagram Stories and called herself a “single lady,” so fans assumed the two had split.

Michael Polansky

In February 2020, the songstress made her rumored relationship with the tech CEO Instagram official. Since then, the pair has posted PDA-filled snaps all over social media and, from the look of it, they’re seriously in love. They quarantined together amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and he even held her hand while she was rehearsing for a January 2021 performance.

According to reports, their first public outing as a couple was just after Lady Gaga performed at the 2020 Super Bowl pre-game celebration hosted at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami, Florida. Fans noticed Michael in the VIP balcony chatting with the songstress’ mom, Entertainment Tonight reported. It was first speculated that the two were together in December 2019. Lady Gaga and Michael were spotted kissing during a New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas, Nevada after her performance at Park MGM’s Park Theater.

Michael runs Facebook cofounder Sean Parker‘s Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is also a Harvard graduate and the CEO of Parker Group. In Touch was first to report in October 2022 that they were on a break after hitting “a rocky patch” in their relationship. A source shared that they “have taken some breathing space to figure out where their relationship is going,” adding that “reconciliation isn’t off the table.”

The insider added, “They still talk. Just right now, he’s focusing on his booming tech career [and] she’s heavily invested in music and her upcoming role in the Joker.”

However, they still seem to be going strong. In January 2024, the couple were spotted out and about in Malibu.