Cowboys’ Jerry Jones defends workplace culture amid voyeurism settlement revelation

Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones defended the tradition inside the group on Monday after it was revealed final month the workforce reached a $2.4 million confidential settlement with 4 cheerleaders who accused a former government of secretly recording them in a locker room in 2015.

Jones spoke publicly for the primary time concerning the settlement on the NFL’s annual assembly in Florida.

“Whenever you spend going-on-30-something years, saying, ‘Take a look at us, hey, wait, you’re wanting away, have a look at us, we’re the Cowboys’—if you go that method, then when you will have some issues you might not need to have a look at, you get checked out,” he stated, through USA At present.

Jones stated it was in one of the best curiosity of the group’s “constituency” to settle and are available to phrases on a nondisclosure settlement. 

Richard Dalrymple, the senior vice chairman for public relations and communication, was the manager accused of wrongdoings within the ESPN report in February. One of many 4 members of the cheerleading squad alleged she noticed Dalrymple stand hidden in a locker room together with his cellphone recording ladies with out their data as they undressed.

Jones stated Dalrymple, who retired in February about two weeks earlier than the report surfaced, retired “on his personal phrases.” He added the settlement was “an effort to adjudicate guilt or innocence and defended the office surroundings.”

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Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones talks with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (L) earlier than the sport in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers in a NFC Wild Card playoff soccer sport at AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, on Jan 16, 2022.
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“I’m very pleased with our office tradition. I’m terribly proud. We’ve nice methods, we have now nice HR, we have now a excessive sensitivity. I’m pleased with all our ratios that we have now, a whole lot of the social features of our office. Terribly pleased with it,” he stated, including there was at all times room to enhance.

Dalrymple, who retired in February, was additionally individually accused by a fan of taking “upskirt” pictures of proprietor Jerry Jones’ daughter, Charlotte Jones Anderson, who works as a workforce senior vice chairman, throughout the 2015 NFL Draft. 

A Cowboys consultant instructed ESPN that each incidents had been investigated and no proof of wrongdoing was discovered. There was no denial that Dalrymple accessed the cheerleaders’ locker room, however Dalrymple instructed officers that he did so accidentally and left as soon as he realized the ladies had been within the room.

“If any wrongdoing had been discovered, Wealthy would have been terminated instantly,” a workforce consultant instructed ESPN. “Everybody concerned felt simply horrible about this unlucky incident.”

Dalrymple additionally issued a press release to the outlet final month denying the allegations. 

“Individuals who know me — co-workers, the media and colleagues — know who I’m and what I am about,” he stated. “I perceive the very severe nature of those claims and don’t take them flippantly. The accusations are, nevertheless, false. One was unintended and the opposite merely didn’t occur. The whole lot that was alleged was totally investigated years in the past, and I cooperated totally.”

Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones on the sphere earlier than the sport in opposition to the Carolina Panthers at AT&T Stadium, on Oct 3, 2021 in Arlington, Texas. 
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Dalrymple stated the allegations “had nothing to do with my retirement from a protracted and fulfilling profession, and I used to be solely contacted about this story after I had retired.”

Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.