Lawyers for the 25-year-old congressional aide, who says Jerry Jones is her biological father, blasted the Dallas Cowboys owner on Wednesday, saying he “maliciously accused his own daughter of blackmail” and firmly denied she was part of “a conspiracy to exploit him.” “
“More distastefully, Mr. Jones deigned to tie Alexandra’s lawsuit to the divorce of his other daughter, Charlotte Jones, only to lose her amidst his many scandals,” say Andrew A. Bergman and Jay K. Gray Dallas attorneys for Alexandra Davis said in a statement.
Davis is the woman who claimed Jones was her biological father in a lawsuit filed March 3 in a Dallas court.
On Monday, Jones’ attorney, in a March 10 letter, asked Shy Anderson, his daughter Charlotte’s ex-husband, to preserve evidence of all conversations he had with a large number of people, including one of Davis’ attorneys possible claim that he was trying to extort money from Jones.
“Alexandra did not conspire with anyone to expose the apparent multitude of scandals involving Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys,” Bergman and Gray wrote. “Alexandra doesn’t know, nor has she ever spoken to Shy Anderson, just as she never has her father.”
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On Monday, Jones’ attorneys asked a judge to dismiss Davis’ lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged that Davis presented Jones with a draft of the lawsuit on an unspecified date and asked if he would “make a deal” to “ensure that he would not be publicly or privately identified as her father.”
In the 428-word statement released to ESPN Wednesday, Davis’ attorneys again insisted their client was not motivated by money and that she never asked Jones or his agents for a single dollar. They said Davis just wanted a judge to overturn an agreement Jones and his representatives made with Cynthia Davis Spencer, Davis’ mother, when she was 1 year old to be legally recognized as Jones’ daughter.
Lawyers allege Jones “avoided and as a result traumatized” Davis.
“After years of fear, embarrassment, feelings of abandonment, and now in the face of a potentially fatal illness for her mother, Alexandra seeks legal recognition,” Bergman and Gray wrote. “All she wants is for her father to be listed on her birth certificate and not have to hide who she is anymore.”
Jones’ personal attorneys, Levi McCathern II and Charles L. Babcock, and Jones’ spokesman Jim Wilkinson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Bergman and Gray noted that Jones’ court filing Monday does not specifically deny that Davis is his daughter, and they urged Jones to “publicly deny that Alexandra is his daughter.”
They also asked Jones to provide evidence that Davis attempted to blackmail him or deny that he “was trying to tie a child to a written agreement that prevents them from letting people know who.” your father is”.
Jones has declined to discuss the allegations publicly. On Monday, while attending the annual NFL owners’ meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., Jones called Davis’s claims “a personal issue.”
Davis, who now works as an assistant to US Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, and worked as an assistant at Trump’s White House, has also said nothing publicly about her allegation.
Davis’ first complaint states that she “lived her life fatherless and in secret and in fear that if she were to tell anyone who her father was, she and her mother would lose financial support or worse.”
Jones allegedly paid $375,000 to Spencer, who, according to the lawsuit, was courted by Jones in 1995 while she worked at the American Airlines ticket office in Little Rock, Arkansas.
“Although she has never had a father her entire life, Alexandra is an intelligent, hardworking, sincere, educated young woman who happens to be the dispossessed, secret, hidden, unrecognized daughter of Mr. Jones,” Davis’ attorneys wrote at the end from her statement Wednesday. “Alexandra is not a scandal and she is not a blackmailer.”