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Jerry Jones’s Paternity Suit Suddenly Ends Before He Testifies

  • The Cowboys owner was slated to testify Tuesday.
  • He has denied previously denied paternity of the codefendant, yet paid her millions over the years.
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Jerry Jones’s court case won’t cause him to miss training camp after all. 

The paternity lawsuit surrounding the Cowboys owner suddenly ended Tuesday with a settlement in court. The case was between Jones and Alexandra Davis, a 27-year-old woman who said she is Jones’s daughter.

Jones has long denied paternity in the case but admitted in court filings to having paid her millions of dollars over the course of her life.

The countersuit from Jones was in response to a 2022 lawsuit that alleged Alexandra was conceived in the mid-1990s from an affair between the Cowboys owner and Cynthia Davis.

The 81-year-old had been suing for breach of contract of a settlement he reached with Cynthia in 1998, two years after Alexandra was born. Jones was seeking $1.6 million from mother and daughter in legal expenses from the 2022 case. This week’s settlement means that the sides will again abide by the 1998 agreement, in which Jones supports Davis but does not acknowledge any parentage.

Alexandra Davis is a legislative assistant for Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), who was the White House physician for Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

The 1998 agreement between Jones and Cynthia Davis, resolved the paternity claim against Jones with an agreement to make significant payments in exchange for broad confidentiality. Court records indicate the Cowboys owner has paid more than $3 million to Alexandra since her childhood through a trust.

Judge Robert W. Schroeder III, who presided over the case and is a district judge for the Eastern District of Texas, declared the cases for both sides were dropped with prejudice. 

The settlement came right before Jones was expected to testify in court, which could have made for a colorful testimony. On Monday, Cynthia Davis gave an emotional testimony, which led Schroeder to pause proceedings, according to WFAA.com. Jones reportedly gave a long hug to Davis when she exited the stand, but he kept his back turned to his alleged daughter. 

Attorneys on both sides accused the other of violating the agreement first. Davis’s attorneys argued Alexandra wanted a 15-minute conversation with Jones before her 21st birthday, when his payments were slated to stop. Jones’s lawyers countered that Alexandra wanted $20 million to terminate their relationship. Cynthia Davis testified that her daughter was upset at the time because Jones had recently paid $20 million to a child from a supposed affair his son Jerry Jr. had.

Jones has been married to his wife, Eugenia, since 1963. In February, Dallas District Court Judge Sandra Jackson upheld a decision that Jones would be required to take a paternity test to see whether he was Alexandra’s father.

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