Quincy Jones death: Relationships timeline and dating history | The great loves of Quincy Jones’ life including Peggy Lipton, Jeri Caldwell and Ulla Jones
Quincy Jones was a music icon for the ages.
The legendary producer, musician and activist, who died yesterday aged 91, labored with many great artists throughout his illustrious 65-year profession. Depend Basie, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson – the record goes on.
But, for the person who has 28 Grammy wins to his identify, he was extra than simply his job.
To mark his loss of life, here’s a look again at Jones’ great loves outdoors the studio.
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Quincy Jones was a music icon for the ages – however he was extra than simply his job. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Jeri Caldwell
Quincy Delight Jones Jr was nonetheless in highschool when he met his past love Jeri Caldwell.
It was the Forties and Jones, 15, and Caldwell, 16, have been each college students at Garfield Excessive Faculty in Seattle, Washington.
Caldwell first locked eyes on Jones throughout a rehearsal of a faculty efficiency. She was a sophomore rehearsing on stage and he was a junior within the orchestra pit.
“I just was mesmerised and I turned round to my girlfriend and I said, ‘Oh, Tony, look at him, I’m in love’,” Caldwell advised PBS in a 2001 interview for Quincy Jones: Within the pocket.
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Jones met his first spouse, Jeri Caldwell, as a highschool pupil. They dated earlier than marrying in 1957. (Quincy Jones/Instagram)
“I probably never would have gotten to know him except for doing this production that involved all the chorus classes from freshman through senior. But after I saw him, then I would try to run into him.”
The couple quickly dated and married in 1957. They share a daughter, Jolie, collectively.
Jones’ star as a budding jazz composer was on the rise throughout his and Caldwell’s relationship.
The household of three spent a lot time below the brilliant lights of Hollywood and Paris.
In 1963, after having an affair with dancer Carol Reynolds, Jones welcomed his second youngster. A daughter named Rachel.
“I just was mesmerised and I turned round to my girlfriend and I said, ‘Oh, Tony, look at him, I’m in love’.” (Quincy Jones/Instagram)
His infidelity led to the breakdown of his marriage to Caldwell. They divorced in 1966.
Caldwell died in 2021 aged 87. Jones wrote a touching tribute to his first spouse.
“As my high school sweetheart, she was my rock, & knew me before anyone else knew my name,” he wrote.
“From moving with me to Paris in the ’50s, to bootstrapping it with me during my Free & Easy tour (which was anything but free & easy!), to being an incredible mother to our sweet Jolie, she never ceased to put others before herself.
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“She even sacrificed her standing & reputation to be with me (after a number of makes an attempt from her household, mates, highschool, & faculty to cease her from marrying a Black man)…However she did it anyway, & for that, I’m perpetually grateful.
“Jeri, thank you for your many years of love, & puttin’ up with me. Eternally connected.”
Ulla Andersson
Jones discovered love once more with Swedish mannequin, actress and singer, Ulla Andersson. After a whirlwind romance they welcomed a daughter Martina, in November 1966.
Ulla Andersson (left) pictured with the late, great American singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone. (Quincy Delight Jones III/Instagram)
Simply hours earlier than his loss of life this week, the music genius publicly despatched his daughter properly needs for her 58th birthday.
“Happy Birthday to my Tina Beena,” he captioned a photograph of himself posing subsequent to Martina.
After finalising his divorce from Caldwell, Jones and Andersson married in 1967.
They welcomed their second youngster collectively, and Jones’s solely son, Quincy Delight Jones III, in December 1968.
Andersson and Jones remained collectively for near a decade earlier than divorcing in 1974.
Following the cut up, she returned to her Scandinavian house with their youngsters. Jones would divide his time between America and Sweden to spend time with them.
Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton was a movie and TV actress, greatest identified for Mod Squad and Twin Peaks. (Getty)
Jones first met Mod Squad actress Peggy Lipton when he was nonetheless with Andersson.
As Lipton remembers it, there was a presence about him and then they went their separate methods. They would meet once more after Jones had broke up with Andersson.
“That was maybe almost two years later,” Lipton said in a 2001 interview.
“So I kind of looked at him maybe as baby-making material because he always used to say to me, all you say to me is, I want a baby. I want a baby. And it was true
“I knew I needed to be with him and I knew I needed infants. I knew I needed his child. So in phrases of working once more, I did not I did not care. I did not even happen to me that I might ever need to work once more or need to work once more. I used to be joyful for it to be over.”
Jones and Lipton reconnected in 1974 and married that same year.
Jones was still with Andersson when he met Lipton (pictured); they got together two years after the split. (Quincy Jones/Instagram)
The newlyweds welcomed their first child together, Kidada, in March 1974.
Their second daughter, Rashida, was born two years later.
“It is a phrase. It is conditional with or with out paper. It is just like the phrase jazz,” Jones was quoted in the 1974 issue of Jet magazine about the institution of marriage.
“If folks could be mates, that is a begin. Individuals get all hung up. Do not let any hostility construct up. If she snores at night time or you do not like your mother-in-law, say so.”
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Jones and Lipton remained married until 1989 when the Twin Peaks actress filed for a divorce. She cited irreconcilable differences as the cause.
“My mother and father are so shut, and that actually makes it simpler, as a result of all of it comes from a spot of love,” US actress and filmmaker Rashida, best known for her roles in TV shows The Office and Parks and Recreation, told Entertainment Weekly in 2018.
“My mum is so empathetic in direction of my dad, nevertheless it additionally was extremely uncooked for her to undergo what she went by means of and admit that the connection did not work out.”
Following Lipton’s loss of life in 2019 from most cancers at age 72, Jones expressed his sorrow.
The music icon with actress Rashida Jones – his second daughter with Peggy Lipton. (Getty Photos for Freedom Highway P)
“There is completely no mixture of phrases that may specific the unhappiness I really feel after shedding my beloved Peggy Lipton.. My spouse of 14 years,” he wrote.
“We shared many, many stunning recollections, and most significantly, we share two unbelievable daughters… Pie (Kidada) and Doonkie (Rashida).
“Regardless of the paths that our lives took us on, I can say with the utmost certainty, that love is eternal.”
In a 2001 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jones admitted his relationships with girls have been usually affected by emotions of “motherlessness”.
“No doubt. I wasn’t aware of it, but whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive—but that was totally subconscious,” he stated.
When Jones was rising up, his mom, Sara Frances, suffered a mental breakdown and was taken away to an establishment.
Jones’ father, Quincy Delight Jones Sr, remarried a lady named Elvera.
“And after coming out of Elvera’s house, I wasn’t sure I could make a relationship work. I had a lot of fear. I was 19 when I married Jeri, and I didn’t know what I was doing,” Jones advised Winfrey.
Quincy Jones together with his household. (Quincy Jones/Instagram)
Final yr, Jones, who had an estimated net worth of US$500 million, shared extra perception into the connection he has together with his family members.
“If you know anything about me, then you already know my family is IT for me, so these pics will forever hold a special place in my heart,” he wrote.
Within the hours following Jones’ loss of life on November 3, it was his household who shared a touching tribute to him.
“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the assertion stated.
“And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”
“He is truly one of a kind and we will miss him dearly; we take comfort and immense pride in knowing that the love and joy, that were the essence of his being, was shared with the world through all that he created,” the assertion continued.
“Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones’ heart will beat for eternity.”
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