Jerry Jones is fighting back.
The Dallas Cowboys owner and his legal team have requested the dismissal of a paternity case filed against him earlier this month after alleging the plaintiff, Alexandra Davis, attempted to extort the Cowboys owner for money prior to filing the lawsuit, according to a report from ESPN.
Andrew A. Bergman, Davis’ attorney, provided ESPN a letter he sent from Jones in January saying Davis was “more than willing to participate in genetic determination.” He denied Jones’ extortion claims.
“I would challenge Jerry Jones to put up any evidence that anyone demanded any money, period. It’s a shame that Jerry Jones wants to further damage his own daughter by now claiming she is extorting him,” Bergman said. “I challenge them to put up any evidence that supports either one of these defamatory and false claims.”
According to Jones’s lawyers, Davis sent a draft of the lawsuit to the 79-year-old on an unspecified date prior to filing on March 3, and asked if he would “make a deal” to “assure that he would not be publicly or privately identified” as her father.
“She is not entitled to the relief she requests, and the Court does not have jurisdiction to grant it,” Jones’s lawyers wrote, per ESPN. The report then notes that Jones denied all allegations made by Davis in her lawsuit before asking the judge to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice.”
The paternity suit claims that Jones “pursued” Davis’s mother, Cynthia Davis Spencer, in 1995 while she was estranged from her husband. The suit also alleges Jones arranged a confidentially agreement with Spencer, paid Davis $375,000 “in exchange for confidentiality,” and set up trusts for both women to keep the paternity a secret.
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“We challenge Mr. Jones to deny that he is the father and/or that he paid the money for the confidentiality agreement for Alex’s mother,” Bergman said Monday, per ESPN. “When [Cynthia] Davis was subpoenaed in an unrelated proceeding, Jerry’s lawyers told [Cynthia] Davis, Alex’s mother, that Jerry’s lawyer, Don Jacks, would be very mad and Jerry would probably terminate the trust.”
A hearing to determine whether the suit should remain sealed to the public is scheduled to take place on Thursday.
