Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is facing legal scrutiny as he has been directed to undergo a paternity test to determine if he is the biological father of a woman who initiated a lawsuit against him back in 2022.
According to documents obtained by Lana Ferguson and Jamie Landers of the Dallas Morning News, Dallas County judge Sandra Jackson upheld the decision for Jones to take a paternity test following a hearing held on Feb. 19.
The lawsuit was originally filed by Alexandra Davis in March 2022, wherein she claimed that Jones is her biological father, citing a relationship between her mother, Cynthia Davis, and the Cowboys owner in the mid-1990s.
Initial court documents revealed that Jones and Cynthia Davis had reached a financial settlement, agreeing to support both mother and daughter as long as they refrained from publicly identifying Jones as Alexandra’s father.
While Jones denied paternity initially, he agreed to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and establish trust funds for Alexandra. However, Davis withdrew the lawsuit a month later.
Despite this, one of her attorneys, Jay Gray, clarified to Nataly Keomoungkhoun of the Dallas Morning News that his client maintained her assertion of Jones being her father, opting to proceed with parentage and DNA testing to dispel any doubts.
In October, Davis filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones, alleging that he, along with two longtime associates, orchestrated a deliberate campaign to depict her as an “extortionist” and a “shakedown artist.”
When the lawsuit was dismissed by a Texas federal judge, Davis refiled it in November, this time including the Cowboys organization, Jones’ attorney Donald Jack Jr., Jones’ friend and adviser Jim Wilkinson, and Wilkinson’s public relations firm, TrailRunner International. The amended suit accused them of labeling her as engaging in “extortion” and a “shake down” of Jones.
As the defamation lawsuit remains ongoing, with Ferguson and Landers reporting a recent hearing earlier this month where Jones’ defense attorneys sought its dismissal, no ruling has been issued at the time of writing.
