Though Quincy Jones may be known best as a legendary producer with an insane collection of Grammys, the 85-year-old entertainer has a pretty lengthy list of past lovers as well. Jones has been married three times and has seven children with five different women, and he even recently claimed to be juggling 22 different girlfriends at once.
Jones's daughter, Parks and Recreation's Rashida Jones, covers most her father's major romantic milestones in her recently released Netflix documentary Quincy, which celebrates Jones's life and career, but we doubt anyone could accurately compile a complete list of the women Jones has courted (including Jones himself!). Here are just 12 of Jones's confirmed past relationships, ranging from brief flings to decades-long romances.
Jones's first wife, Jeri Caldwell, was his high school sweetheart from Seattle. The two were married in 1957, staying together for nine years before divorcing in 1966. Together they had one daughter, Jolie Levine.
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2Ulla Andersson
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Swedish model Ulla Andersson met Jones at a party held in honour of Frank Sinatra in New York in 1966, and she and Jones married only a year later, in 1967. Together they had two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III, and Andersson retired from modelling to raise them. Andersson returned to Sweden with her children after she and Jones formally separated, but the two didn't divorce until 1974 so that Jones could marry his longtime partner, Peggy Lipton.
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3Carol Reynolds
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Jones only had a brief affair with dancer Carol Reynolds, but the union resulted in a daughter, Rachel Jones.
Jones was married to his third wife, The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks actress Peggy Lipton, from 1974 to 1990. Together the couple had two daughters, Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones, both of whom became actresses. Despite their divorce, Jones and Lipton still remain close today, with Lipton playing a big role in Quincy.
German actress and former model Nastassja Kinski dated Jones soon after her divorce from Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa and Jones's divorce from Lipton, though Kinski is 28 years younger than Jones. The relationship lasted three years, and in 1993, the pair had a daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, a model now professionally known as Kenya Kinski-Jones.
Publicist Lisette Weiner Derouaux and Jones started off as friends after they met at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1995, and Derouaux became Jones's publicist, serving as the executive director and vice president of his Listen Up Foundation. They didn't remain "just friends" for long, and they developed a romantic relationship that lasted about six years, eventually breaking up because Derouaux wanted children and Jones did not, having already fathered seven kids. Jones produced the song "Lisette" about their relationship, and the two are still on friendly terms, with Derouaux even introducing Jones to her now-husband, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.
Former Playboy Playmate of the Month and Hugh Hefner's second wife Kimberley Conrad was romantically linked to Jones in 2005, though Conrad was still married to Hefner at the time.
Jones first sparked dating rumours with Heba Elawadi when he showed up to the Ludacris Release Therapy listening party in 2006 with the aspiring Egyptian fashion designer, who was only 19 at the time. The two dated for about a year before parting ways.
In a recent interview with New York magazine's David Marchese, Jones claimed that 12 years ago, while working with his daughter Kidada, Tommy Hilfiger set up Jones on a date with then-25-year-old Ivanka Trump, though Trump hasn't yet confirmed or denied the date.
In the 2001 Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Jones claims to have dated Trinidadian-born jazz and classical pianist and singer Hazel Scott, who had previously been married to Baptist minister and U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and who passed away from cancer in 1981.
In his 2001 autobiography, Jones also claims that he was dating French actress and singer Juliette Gréco at the same time she was having a love affair with Miles Davis.
