Ulla Jones
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Ulla Andesong (Jones) in Stockholm, August 2014
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| Born |
Ulla Agneta Andersson 18 June 1946 , Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Other names | Ulla Jones, Ulla Andesong |
| Occupation | Model, actress, singer-songwriter, author, artist, makeup artist, photographer |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Agent | Ford Models |
| Known for | Modeling |
| Home town | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Spouse(s) | Quincy Jones (1967–1974; divorced) |
| Children | Martina Jones Quincy Jones III |
| Website | ullaandesong |
Ulla Agneta Jones (née Andersson; born 18 June 1946), known professionally as Ulla Andersson and Ulla Jones is a former high fashion model, actress, singer, songwriter and photographer. She appeared on numerous magazine covers during the 1960s, before she retired from the Ford Modelling Agency. She was married to American music producer Quincy Jones, with whom she had two children.
After living in California with Jones for several years, she legally separated from him and returned to Sweden with her children. She also calls herself Ulla Andesong (Swedish for spirit song).
In 1966 when Andersson was 19, she met American musician and music producer Quincy Jones at a party in New York, given by TWA in honour of Frank Sinatra. After their courtship, she left the 5th Avenue apartment she had been subletting in Manhattan from the producer Robert Evans and moved to California to live with Jones. In 1967 she and Jones married. She retired from her modeling career to raise their two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III.
After several years of marriage, Ulla Jones and the children returned to live in Sweden, where she remains today (2014).
She and Quincy Jones were then formally separated, but not divorced until 1974, so that Jones could marry his longtime partner by then, actress Peggy Lipton with whom he had two daughters. Ulla Jones agreed to complete the divorce and to a cash settlement. After receiving the small settlement, she moved out to the suburbs of .
Today, she is a grandmother.
Jones was discovered at the age of 15 in by modelling giant Eileen Ford who immediately signed her and sent her to Paris. There she was trained as a model and began working, soon travelling the world for fashion shows and shoots in Europe, the United States, and Russia. She was photographed by such renowned fashion photographers of the day as Hiro, and her image appeared on international fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
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