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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was ordered to take a paternity test by a Dallas judge on Wednesday as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by a woman claiming to be his daughter.
The woman, Alexandra Davis, first claimed Jones was her biological father in 2022.
“Judge Jackson is a true Judge of the people,” Davis’ lawyer, Kris Hayes wrote in a statement. “She listened to the facts of the case and followed the law perfectly. Her ruling proves that being a rich, powerful person does not mean you are above the law.”
Davis had to refile the lawsuit in November 2023 after a judge dismissed the original suit filed by Davis in October.
A separate lawsuit accused Jerry Jones, Jones’ former lawyer Don Jack, and Cowboys spokesperson Jim Wilkinson falsely accused her of being an extortionist.
The 27-year-old Davis alleges that Jones had a relationship with her mother in the mid-1990s and that she received a financial settlement from Jones to not publicly disclose that he was her father.
According to the Associated Press, the settlement allegedly called for Jones to pay Alexandra Davis’ mother Cynthia $375,000 and for Alexandra to receive a “certain monthly, annual and special funding” from a trust until she was 21, plus lump sum payments when she turned 24, 26 and 28.
Don Jack has claimed that Jerry Jones paid nearly $3 million in “child support” payments to Davis and her mother including paying her full tuition at SMU and buying her a $70,000 Range Rover on her 16th birthday.
Alexandra Davis believes that since it was her mother who signed the confidentiality agreement it doesn’t apply to her.
Jerry Jones had previously been ordered to take a paternity test to prove if he is, in fact, Davis’ father in December 2022. Jones appealed the decision, putting off having to take the test.
In other legal news, Jerry Jones still has a potential jury trial hanging over him in a personal injury lawsuit in which a woman has accused him of sexually assaulting her on Sept. 16, 2018 in front of several Cowboys players while in the Tom Landry Room at AT&T Stadium.