Grace Jones Net Worth

Grace Jones's Quotes

• [on drug use] Use, don't abuse.
• [on her gay following] The fact that I get in there and perform during this political time, and have a great time doing it helps. Gays are my best audience.
• [on her film career, or lack thereof] After the doing the first big film (Conan the Destroyer (1984)), I realized there was so much time, so much empty space -- always, you know... waiting to be called. Thank God, I've got the music because in all that space, I was writing music.
• [on how she became to be a singer] I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
• [on her stage persona] When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

Interesting Facts about Grace Jones

1. From a relationship with Jean-Paul Goude she has a son, Paulo (b. 12 November 1979), and a paternal granddaughter.
2. During the '70s, often attended legendary New York disco Studio 54.
3. She famously attacked British interviewer Russell Harty when he turned away from her to speak to the other guests on his programme.
4. Signed to Island Records and released her debut album 'Portfolio'. [1977]
5. Attended the 1986 wedding of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver on Cape Cod with Andy Warhol.
6. Lived with Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren for four years, who appeared with her in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), though contrary to popular rumor they were never engaged. He was also once her bodyguard.
7. Her androgynous and statuesque style made her extremely successful in New York City's underground and nightlife scenes and her sexually evocative stage shows and songs like "I Need A Man" earned her the title "The Queen of Gay Discos" because of her large following of gay men.
8. Speaks English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian and German.
9. Shocked audience members in 1998 when she exposed her breasts during a Disney World performance. She was banned from the park.
10. Sister of Noel Jones, subject of Sophie Fiennes' 2002 documentary, Hoover Street Revival (2002).
11. Ranked #82 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock 'n Roll.
12. Ranked #19 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
13. Honored with Q's Idol Award. [2008]
14. "Bishop Robert W. Jones Way", a street in Syracuse, New York is named after her father, for his community outreach with the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. Her mother was his wife Marjorie Williams. They already had two children when she was born and had four more children after she was born.
15. Became friends with Sarah Douglas during the filming of Conan the Destroyer (1984). In fact, Jones bought Douglas a motorcycle for her 34th birthday.
16. She was given the casting couch treatment by one of the producers of her debut film, the blaxploitation film Gordon's War (1973). She refused his advances and he later apologized and she was cast in the film.
17. While modeling in Paris, she was roommates with fellow models Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange. They have remained lifelong friends.
18. Says in her autobiography that Tony Scott wanted her badly for the small role of Cory in The Last Boy Scout (1991), but the producers opposed to it and cast Halle Berry instead.
19. In her autobiography, states she was never married to music producer Christopher "Chris" Stanley (who produced her 1989 album "Bulletproof Heart"), although they were in a relationship for a few years, between 1989 and 1991. She has only married once on 24 February 1996, to Atila Altaunbay, a Turkish Muslim, born in 1976, when he was only 20 years old, making him 28 years younger than her, and although they separated after a few years in 2004, they are still legally married.
20. Turned down the role of Zhora in Blade Runner (1982), a decision she later regretted.