Mattis: I love a parade, if it is Prez’s idea
QUINCY JONES boasted in an interview that he once dated Ivanka Trump, who “had the most beautiful legs” — and the “wrong father.”
The legendary music producer’s rollicking sitdown with Vulture featured an array of stunning revelations — including that Richard Pryor once had sex with Marlon Brando.
Jones’s supposed relationship with President Trump’s daughter happened 12 years ago when the “Thriller” producer was in his mid-70s and Trump was in her mid-20s.
“I used to date Ivanka, you know,” he told Vulture in the interview published Wednesday.
He said he met Trump through fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.
“Ivanka wants to have dinner with you,” Jones recalled Hilfiger saying.
“I said, ‘No problem. She’s a fine motherf---er.’ She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though.”
Neither the White House, where Trump is a senior adviser, or a representative for Hilfiger returned a request for comment.
Trump is rumored to have dated actor Topher Grace and cyclist Lance Armstrong before beginning a relationship in 2007 with her now-husband Jared Kushner.
Jones brought up the alleged romantic encounter while discussing racism — which he blamed on President Trump and “uneducated rednecks.”
“Trump is just telling them what they want to hear,” the Grammy Award-winning producer said. “I used to hang out with him. He’s a crazy motherf----r. Limited mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.”
Jones made many other wild boasts in the lengthy interview.
He claimed to know who killed John F. Kennedy — though he wished he didn’t know.
He said that Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen “sings and plays just like (Jimi) Hendrix.”
Michael Jackson, Jones said, “stole a lot of songs.”
“He was as Machiavellian as they come,” Jones said of the King of Pop. But perhaps the most wild disclosure came about Brando.
“He was the most charming motherf---er you ever met. He’d f--- anything. Anything! He’d f-a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye,” Jones said.
Shortly after publication of the interview, Pryor’s widow, Jennifer Lee, confirmed the comedian had a drugged-up dalliance with Brando (photos of both, inset).
“It was the ’70s! Drugs were still good, especially quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you’d f--k a radiator and send it flowers in the morning,” she told TMZ.
Jones, now 84, also dismissed rumors his pal Oprah Winfrey will run for President in 2020 because the talk TV titan “doesn’t have the chops for it.” “If you haven’t been governor of a state or the CEO of a company or a military general, you don’t know how to lead people,” he said — though Winfrey serves as CEO for her production and TV networks. THE TRUMP administration bulldozed ahead Wednesday with plans to throw a grand military parade at the President’s request, ignoring bipartisan criticism that such a public demonstration of power is characteristic of authoritarian regimes like North Korea and China.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters the President’s heart is in the right place with his hope for an armed forces parade through the nation’s capital.
“We all know the President of the United States’ affection for the military,” Mattis said, adding that Trump’s parade request reflects his respect for the military.
Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, declined to answer questions about how the parade would be paid for or when it would take place.
Mattis’ answers did not quell a Congress-wide chorus of criticism, with both Republicans and Democrats lambasting Trump for acting like an autocratic ruler.
‘I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said. “America is the most powerful country in all of human history, everybody knows it, and we don’t need to show it off …We’re not North Korea, we’re not Russia and we’re not China, and I don’t want to be.”