The Dallas Cowboys’ first press conference of training camp was unexpectedly postponed due to team owner and general manager Jerry Jones testifying in a legal battle with a 27-year-old woman who claims to be his biological daughter, ESPN reported.
In 2022, Alexandra Davis filed a paternity lawsuit against the billionaire. Jones countersued, arguing that her filing violated a contract signed by Davis’ mother on her behalf in 1998. Although both Davis’ initial paternity lawsuit and a subsequent defamation lawsuit have been dropped, ESPN reports that her attorneys are considering an appeal. However, a decision must first be reached regarding Jones’ countersuit.
Jones has steadfastly denied being Davis’ father.
The Cowboys have returned to Oxnard, California for their training camp, marking the 18th consecutive year they have prepared for the season along the Pacific. Prior to Oxnard, the team held training camp at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks from 1963 to 1989.
In February, a judge ordered Jones to take a paternity test, but the results have not yet been disclosed. Alexandra Davis’ attorney, Kris Hayes, hailed the ruling as a “huge victory,” stating, “Alex is in a position where she really no longer has to hide her truth or live under the thumb of fear. Maybe she’s going to finally get some peace, and we hope other families will have that same benefit from the judge following the law.”
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Davis alleges that she was conceived as a result of a relationship between Jones and her mother, Cynthia Davis, in the mid-1990s. Court documents reveal that Jones and Cynthia Davis reached a settlement in which he agreed to provide financial support as long as they did not publicly identify him as Alexandra’s father.
Alexandra’s lawsuit, filed on March 3, 2022, sought a court declaration that she was not bound by that agreement. After dropping the lawsuit, she pursued legal means to prove Jones is her father through genetic testing. A previous court ruling compelled Jones to undergo a genetic test, but his lawyers appealed. The ruling on February 19 is the result of that appeal.
During the hearing, three attorneys representing the Cowboys’ owner argued that a man who was married to Cynthia when Alexandra was born was her presumed father. However, Davis’ attorneys countered this, producing court documents from Arkansas stating in “plain and apparent words” that the man who was married to Cynthia at the time was not her father. Cynthia and that man have since separated.
Hayes argued that since Alexandra Davis does not have a presumed father, Jones must either admit paternity or agree to a genetic test.
As the legal battle unfolds, it continues to cast a shadow over the Cowboys’ preparations for the upcoming season. The team’s focus now shifts back to the field as they begin their training camp in Oxnard, hoping to move past the off-field distractions and concentrate on football.
