Personal Life
Jones has been married three times and has seven children:
- to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966; they had one daughter, Jolie Jones Levine.
- to Ulla Andersson from 1967 to 1974; they had two children, Martina Jones and son Quincy Jones III;
- to actress Peggy Lipton from 1974 to 1990; they had two daughters, actresses Kidada Jones and Rashida Jones.
- Jones also had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds and they had a daughter, Rachel Jones.
- Jones dated and lived with actress Nastassja Kinski from 1991 until 1995. In February 1993, their daughter Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones was born.
For the 2006 PBS television program African American Lives, Jones had his DNA tested; the results found that through his patrilineal line (Y DNA), he is of European ancestry, and through his matrilineal line (mt DNA) he is of West African/Central African ancestry of Tikar descent. In a BBC interview, Jones said he had discovered that his father was half Welsh. The series revealed that Jones' family hails from an area in Cameroon known for its music. On hearing the information, Jones said: "I would have never guessed." On his mother's side, Jones is a descendant of Betty Washington Lewis, president George Washington's sister.
Jones has never learned to drive, citing an accident in which he was a passenger (at age 14) as the reason.
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