Quincy Jones claims he dated Ivanka Trump, knows real killer of JFK and calls Beatles 'worst musicians in world'

Quincy Jones has claimed he once dated Ivanka Trump, in an extraordinary interview in which the music producer said he knew who really killed John F Kennedy.

The 84-year-old also took a swipe at a range of figures in the music world, from longtime collaborator Michael Jackson to The Beatles.

Claiming that he used to socialise with Donald Trump, he called the US president "a crazy mother------", and that he was "limited mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic".

He then added he used to date Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka, after being introduced to the businesswoman when she was 25 by Tommy Hilfiger.

"Tommy Hilfiger, who was working with my daughter Kidada, said, 'Ivanka wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'No problem. She's a fine mother------'," he told New York Magazine.

"She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though," Jones added.

Quincy Jones claimed to have dated Ivanka Trump CREDIT: AP


After mentioning that he met Paul McCartney when he was 21, he was asked about his first impressions of The Beatles.

"They were the worst musicians in the world ... Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don't even talk about it."

Jones added: "I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn't get it.



"We said, 'Mate, why don't you get some lager and lime, some shepherd's pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.'

"So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, 'George, can you play it back for me one more time?'.

"So George did, and Ringo says, 'That didn't sound so bad.' And I said, 'Yeah, mother------ because it ain't you.' Great guy, though," Jones added.

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones in 1984 CREDIT: AP


Jones also accused Jackson of stealing "a lot of songs" and that he was "as Machiavellian as they come".

"Greedy, man. Greedy. 'Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough' — Greg Phillinganes (a studio keyboardist) wrote the c section. Michael should’ve given him 10 percent of the song. Wouldn’t do it."

When asked to name something he wished he didn't know, Jones replied: "Who killed Kennedy."

It was [Chicago mobster Sam] "Giancana. The connection was there between Sinatra and the Mafia and Kennedy", he said, referring to one of the well known conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of the former president.