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A judge has dismissed the multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is her biological father.
The woman, 27-year-old Alexandra Davis, first claimed Jerry Jones was her biological father in 2022.
Since then, she claimed that Jones, Jones’ former lawyer Don Jack, and Cowboys spokesperson Jim Wilkinson falsely accused her of being an extortionist and a “shakedown artist.”
Davis, a congressional aide, was suing Jones, Wilkinson, Jack, TrailRunner International (Wilkinson’s employer), and the Dallas Cowboys.
In his ruling, according to the Dallas Morning News, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Schroeder wrote Davis had not “sufficiently pleaded that defendants acted with actual malice.”
“I am not at all surprised by the dismissal of the claims against Mr. Jones and his co-defendants,” Jones’ attorney Levi McCathern said in a statement to the Morning News. “These claims were false and had no merit from the very beginning. Unfortunately, one of the downsides of being a public figure is that you become a target for frivolous lawsuits by people whose sole purpose is to enrich themselves and their attorneys.”
The lawsuit, initially filed in March 2023, had already been partially dismissed in October 2023 when a judge deemed certain allegations in the lawsuit were not considered defamatory.
Alexandra Davis re-filed an amended version of the lawsuit in November. Now, according to her lawyers, she will try to appeal the latest decision.
“We are disappointed in the ruling and intend to appeal and believe we will be successful,” Davis’ attorneys Andrew Bergman and Jay Gray said in a statement. “Of course this ruling has no impact on the paternity suit or Mr. Jones having to submit to genetic testing.”
Jerry Jones was ordered to take a paternity test by a judge in February. It is the second time he has been ordered to do so. Jones had appealed the first decision by a judge, but the order was later upheld.
Jones also is dealing with a personal injury lawsuit in which a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in front of several Cowboys players at AT&T Stadium on Sept. 16, 2018.
That lawsuit had been set to go to trial on the 18th of March, but was delayed and is now scheduled to begin on March 3, 2025.