Latest on Jerry Jones’ lawsuit: Cowboys owner forced to postpone press conference over legal battle with Alexandra Davis
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones currently finds himself embroiled in a legal battle over a paternity lawsuit with a woman named Alexandra Davis. Jones filed a lawsuit against Davis, a case which will go to trial in a federal courthouse in Texarkana on Monday, July 22.
According to a report from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Cowboys will now postpone their annual opening press conference which was earlier slated for Wednesday in Oxnard. The press conference has now been pushed to Saturday since Jones is expected to take the stand in the paternity trial in a case that is expected to last between four and five days.
Inside Jerry Jones' paternity lawsuit
In 2022, Alexandra Davis filed a lawsuit against Jerry Jones alleging that he was her biological father. Ms Davis claimed Jones and her mother came to an agreement over financial support and also claimed that Jones bound the family to secrecy.
A CBS report added that the agreement between Jones and the mother, Cynthia Davis, was that the Cowboys owner would pay her $375,000 in addition to a "certain monthly, annual and special funding" from a trust until she was 21. Per the alleged terms of the agreement, Jones would also have to pay the family lump sum payments when Alexandra Davis turned 24, 26 and 28.
Jones was also ordered to take a paternity test.
Later, Alexandra Davis filed a defamation lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner. However, a federal judge dismissed the case in March 2024. However, earlier this month, Jones filed a defamation lawsuit of his own against Alexandra Davis, a case that is set to go to trial on Monday, July 22.
After filing the lawsuit, Jones' lawyer told Dallas News:
“It’s a case where the judge has given it very, very thorough and careful attention and we’re looking forward to trying the case not as much for the money, although there’s significant money involved, but rather to uphold the fact that when you make a deal and one side lives up to the deal as Mr. Jones did, the other side should too. Our view is that they didn’t live up to it and we did.”