Inside the life of legendary music producer Quincy Jones: The genius behind Thriller who boasted of 22 girlfriends at the age of 84 and hooked on heroin at 15 By Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail Published: 17:31 EST, 4 November 2024 | Updated: 17:59 EST, 4 November 2024 e-mail View comments As the music giant who produced everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson , as well as composing myriad film and TV scores, Quincy Jones reputedly had the biggest address book in Hollywood. He also had a wonderfully indiscreet anecdote for almost every entry in that book. When the immensely talented and versatile producer – who knew Malcolm X, Buzz Aldrin, Marlon Brando and even Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, not to mention the kings and queens of jazz, pop and rap – sat down for interviews, publicists would hover nervously, waiting for him to drop the next bombshell.
It was Jones, for example, who revealed the full extent of his pal Brando's rapacious sex drive, telling an interviewer in 2018: 'He'd f*** anything. Anything! He'd f*** a mailbox. Richard Pryor.
Marvin Gaye.' The widow of Hollywood comedian and actor Pryor later confirmed the truth of his claim, saying he'd always been open about his bisexuality with close friends. Michael Jackson holds eight awards as he poses with Quincy Jones at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, 1984 Quincy Jones produced the biggest-selling album in history, Michael Jackson's Thriller (as well as Bad and Off The Wall) Jones with Frank Sinatra at.