A woman who says she is the daughter of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has refiled a defamation case this week against him and others.
Alexandra Davis refiled a defamation lawsuit against him, his personal lawyer Donald P. Jack, and the Jones family’s communications consultant Jim Wilkinson on Tuesday, according to ESPN.
Back in March, a Texas federal judge dismissed her original lawsuit in which she alleged that he and two longtime associates “initiated a deliberate plan” to portray her as “an ‘extortionist’ and a ‘shakedown artist.'”
Davis first filed a separate lawsuit last year where she was seeking recognition as Jones’ daughter and alleging that he had paid her $375,000 and set up two trusts to conceal that he was her biological father. Her defamation suit alleged the Cowboys owner and his representatives waged a public campaign attacking her character “based knowingly on false statements and accusations.”
Judge Robert W. Schroeder III determined that some of the alleged defamatory statements about her were either true or were “not defamatory.” He also ruled that Davis qualified as a “limited public figure” and as such had failed to make a valid claim of actual malice, a requirement under defamation law.
The refiled lawsuit claims that Wilkinson and Jack falsely accused Davis “of being an extortionist and portrayed Plaintiff as attempting to ‘shakedown’ Defendant Jones” and that the pair “either knew the statements being made by them were false or they knew enough facts such that they should have entertained serious doubts as to the truth of their defamatory statements.”
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Davis has sought to be released from a confidentiality agreement that her mother allegedly signed upon her birth in her original lawsuit, and Jones has been ordered to take a paternity test, though it has constantly been pushed back.
