❤️When Choosing Him Was the Wrong Answer—She Chose Him Anyway

❤️When Choosing Him Was the Wrong Answer—She Chose Him Anyway

In 1974, less than 48 hours after his divorce was finalized, Quincy Jones married Peggy Lipton—and in 1970s America, that wasn’t just romance, it was resistance. She was the Golden Globe-winning star of The Mod Squad, the blonde, bell-bottomed symbol of cool; he was a Black musical genius in a country still uneasy with interracial love. When they walked into restaurants and no one recognized his name, the stares weren’t curious—they were hostile. “We were seen as something people hadn’t decided to accept,” Peggy would later admit. At the height of her fame, she stepped away from Hollywood for fifteen years to raise their daughters, Kidada Jones and Rashida Jones, choosing family over spotlight. Their marriage eventually ended, but when Peggy died in
2019, Quincy wrote, “Regardless of the paths our lives took us on, love is eternal.” And when asked what he wanted remembered, he didn’t mention awards or records—he mentioned her, the woman who chose him when choosing him was still considered, by many, the wrong answer.