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A 26-year-old Texas woman who claims to be the secret daughter of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has won a major legal battle that could prove that the billionaire is her biological father.
Earlier this year, a woman named Alexandra Davis filed a lawsuit claiming Jones had a relationship with her mother in the 90s and that he’s her biological father. The woman claims her mother had a financial settlement with Jones to not publicly reveal that he was the father, but she feels that her mother’s agreement does not bind her from speaking out.
Davis eventually dropped the lawsuit but is now trying to prove that Jones is her father.
On Thursday, a Texas court ordered Jones to take a paternity test to see if he’s Davis’ father.
Via AP
A judge has ordered Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to take a paternity test as part of a legal dispute with a 26-year-old woman who claims the billionaire is her biological father.
A Texas judge issued the order for genetic testing Thursday in a paternity case brought by Alexandra Davis, who previously alleged in a separate lawsuit she was conceived from a relationship Jones had with her mother in the mid-1990s.
Jones’ legal team plans to appeal the judge’s decision.
Attorneys for Jones did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday, but said in court filings that they intend to appeal the decision. One of Davis’
Davis’ original lawsuit claimed that Jones “pursued” Cynthia Davis, who was also married at the time, after they met while she was working for American Airlines out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Their settlement allegedly called for Jones to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and for Alexandra Davis to receive a “certain monthly, annual and special funding” from a trust until she was 21, as well as lump sum payments when she turned 24, 26 and 28.