A lady filed a lawsuit towards Jerry Jones final week alleging that the Dallas Cowboys proprietor is her organic father. Based on the girl’s attorneys, she is just searching for an acknowledgement.
Alexandra Davis, a 25-year-old Congressional aide who lives in Washington, D.C., claims she has lived her complete life with out a father after Jones paid her mom, Cynthia Davis Spencer, $375,000 in 1996 to signal a confidentiality settlement. The settlement prohibited Alexandra or Cynthia from ever stating that Jones is Alexandra’s organic father. Jones, whose lawyer set arrange two trusts linked to the then 1-year-old lady and her mom, denied that he was Alexandra’s father within the settlement.
The lawsuit alleges that Davis has “lived her life fatherless and in secret and in worry that if she ought to inform anybody who her father was, she and her mom would lose monetary help, or worse.” On Thursday, Davis’ attorneys issued a press release saying their consumer just isn’t motivated by “fame or fortune.” She just isn’t searching for cash.
“Ms. Davis’ lawsuit doesn’t search the restoration of cash,” Davis’ attorneys, Andrew A. Bergman and Jay Okay. Grey, of Dallas, wrote in a press release to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. “Ms. Davis’ lawsuit seeks solely to have a Courtroom declare that she just isn’t certain to an settlement entered into that makes an attempt to ban her from stating who her actual father is. Absolutely, anybody can perceive this want of a kid it doesn’t matter what age to have the power to say they’ve a father with out the worry of reprisal.”
The lawsuit states that Jones courted Davis Spencer in 1995 when she was working on the American Airways ticket counter in Little Rock, Ark. Davis Spencer was estranged from her husband and going by means of a divorce on the time.
“Defendant Jones, with the assistance of attorneys, realizing that Cynthia was now a single mom with a really younger little one and an unsure monetary future at greatest, got down to negotiate a ‘settlement’ that may change cash for silence [‘hush money’],” the lawsuit states.
Davis’ attorneys additionally stated Thursday that their consumer solely filed a lawsuit after Jones ignored quite a few makes an attempt to handle the matter in personal. The trusts that Jones arrange in 1996 stay in impact.
Davis has agreed to have the courtroom data briefly sealed on the request of Jones. The lawsuit was found earlier than the paperwork have been sealed.
Jones, 79, has not commented on the matter.
