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Jerry Jones’ lawsuit against a woman claiming to be his daughter, 27-year-old Alexandra Davis, will go to trial in front of a federal jury on July 22.
According to the Dallas Morning News, jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin on July 19. The trial will be held in the U.S. district court in Texarkana with District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III presiding.
“It’s a case where the judge has given it very, very thorough and careful attention and we’re looking forward to trying the case not as much for the money, although there’s significant money involved, but rather to uphold the fact that when you make a deal and one side lives up to the deal as Mr. Jones did, the other side should too,” Jones’ attorney Chip Babcock told the Dallas Morning News. “Our view is that they didn’t live up to it and we did.”
Jerry Jones claims in his lawsuit that Alexandra Davis and her mother Cynthia violated a contract they had with him that prevents them from “suing or supporting any suit to establish paternity.”
Alexandra Davis first claimed publicly that Jerry Jones was her biological father in 2022. Jones was ordered to take a paternity test by a judge in February, the second time he has been ordered to do so after he appealed the first order by a judge to take the test.
Jones also claims that the agreement he and the Davis women signed in 1998 required them to keep the details of their settlement confidential in exchange for him giving them millions of dollars to support Alexandra, now a congressional aide, from “early childhood through adulthood.”
He claims that now the women “want more than they were entitled to receive.”
In March, a judge dismissed a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Alexandra Davis who claimed the Dallas Cowboys’ owner, Jones’ former lawyer Don Jack, and Cowboys spokesperson Jim Wilkinson falsely accused her of being an extortionist and a “shakedown artist.”
Davis’ attorneys Andrew Bergman and Jay Gray have said that they will appeal that latest decision.