Woman suing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones drops lawsuit, wants to establish parentage

The 25-year-old lady who filed a lawsuit alleging Jerry Jones is her organic father has dropped the case and can as an alternative search to legally set up that the Dallas Cowboys proprietor is her father or mother.

In court docket paperwork filed Wednesday afternoon, Alexandra Davis says she desires genetic testing to confirm the parent-child relationship.

“Alexandra has simply determined that she desires to go forward and proceed with parentage and DNA testing,” stated Jay Grey, one in every of Davis’ legal professionals. “She desires to take away any doubts that Jerry’s her father.”

The motion comes the day earlier than a scheduled listening to in Davis’ earlier lawsuit towards Jones, which her attorneys requested a choose to dismiss with out prejudice Wednesday.

A consultant for Jones declined to remark. Attorneys for Jones didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Davis alleged in her lawsuit filed March 3 that Jones and her mom had a relationship within the mid-Nineties from which Davis was conceived. Jones and Davis’ mom reached a settlement to financially assist the mom and little one so long as they didn’t publicly establish Jones as her father, the lawsuit stated.

A lawyer who helped make funds on behalf of Jones to Davis and her mom stated hundreds of thousands of {dollars} had been paid to them and alleges that she demanded a further $20 million from Jones a number of years in the past.

On the finish of March, Jones’ legal professionals argued in a court docket submitting that Davis’ lawsuit was one in every of many “financial extortion makes an attempt” concentrating on Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. Davis’ legal professionals have repeatedly denied the extortion allegations.

Jones’ legal professionals additionally argued within the court docket submitting that the lawsuit was filed within the fallacious court docket. They stated that, due to the parentage allegations, the lawsuit ought to’ve been filed in household court docket somewhat than civil court docket.

The lawsuit and the brand new parentage motion are among the many many difficulties Jones and the Cowboys have confronted this offseason.

Most lately, Dallas police interviewed Cowboys cornerback Kelvin Joseph concerning the deadly capturing of a person on Greenville Avenue final month. Joseph’s lawyer has stated he was within the car with the gunmen however didn’t fireplace at 20-year-old Cameron Ray; two different males have since been arrested on homicide fees.

The Jones household’s lives even have been within the highlight following media protection that detailed Davis’ lawsuit, a multimillion-dollar settlement with the staff’s cheerleaders after accusations of voyeurism by a former Cowboys official and a lawsuit a couple of videotape of a sexual encounter involving one in every of Jones’ sons.

The divorce of Jones’ daughter, Cowboys govt Charlotte Jones, and her estranged husband, David “Shy” Anderson, might hyperlink a number of the allegations collectively. Though not one of the allegations had been talked about in the course of the divorce trial, a letter from Jerry Jones’ attorneys to Anderson tried to attach him to latest scandals, together with Davis’ lawsuit.

A spokesman for the Jones household beforehand stated the latest information of the settlements, lawsuits and accusations are a public assault towards the Jones household.