The 25-year-old woman, who is at the center of a paternity lawsuit against Jerry Jones, has claimed she is not asking for money from the Cowboys’ owner.
But three weeks after the case broke, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. reports that Jones’ lawyer claims Alexandra Davis has already received nearly $3 million over the years. That money paid for her full college tuition, an SUV, a Sweet 16 birthday party, and trips abroad.
But it’s just a drop in the ocean compared to the $20 million a disaffected Davis reportedly asked Jones for, promising to keep quiet about her alleged identity as the billionaire’s daughter.
Don Jack is the Little Rock, Arkansas attorney representing Jones.
“On numerous occasions, I have made payments to Cindy and Alex Davis on behalf of Mr. Jones,” Jack said in a statement to ESPN.
The first payment came in 1995, when Jack reached an agreement on Jones’ behalf with Cynthia Spencer Davis to pay her $375,000 and monthly child support payments from two foundations, “which ultimately totaled over $2 million “, he said.
Jones has not acknowledged Davis as his biological daughter; A stipulation to the payouts (two more lump sums are due when Davis turns 26 and 28) was that Davis not attempt to establish legal paternity.
Davis has now requested that the court set aside the agreement. Her lawyer has insisted that she is not asking for money, but instead is asking that Davis name Jones as her real father on her birth certificate.
However, Jack tells a different story, recalling having dinner with Davis and her mother at a Dallas-area restaurant several years ago.
“At that meeting, Alex read me a personal letter she had written to Jerry Jones expressing her dissatisfaction with what she had received and requesting $20 million,” Jack said. “She stated that if that amount were paid, she would no longer bother Mr. Jones and would keep their relationship confidential.”
The story goes on
Neither Jack nor a Jones spokesman could prove this letter, reports Van Natta.
This week, however, Jones asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming Davis was part of “multiple money extortion attempts” against the Cowboys’ owner.
Jack told ESPN that Davis and her mother have repeatedly asked for additional money and other expenses over the years, exceeding the escrow payouts by nearly $1 million.
These expenses included $33,000 for a “Sweet 16” birthday party shown in Big Rich Texas (Davis and her mother appeared on the reality series), a Range Rover, Davis’ four years at SMU, a $24,000 expensive trip abroad for Davis after graduation, and a $25,000 Christmas trip to Paris for Davis and her mother.
“This clearly shows that money has always been the ultimate goal here,” Jones spokesman Jim Wilkinson said. “And unfortunately, this is only part of a broader, calculated and concerted effort that has been carried out by multiple individuals with different agendas for some time.”
One of those people might be Shy Anderson, now ex-husband of Charlotte Jones, Jerry’s daughter and the Cowboys’ chief brand officer.
While the former couple is going through a “contentious divorce battle,” Anderson has been ordered to retain documents “to determine if there is any conspiracy between you and others” on various areas of the interests of the Jones family and the Cowboys team, including communications, which Anderson may have had with Davis and her mother.
According to Wilkinson, Davis’ attorney cited the names of two highly paid Cowboys players at a meeting between the two sides in early March.
“If you want that to just go away,” attorney Andrew Bergman said, according to Wilkinson, “it’s going to cost you Zeke or Dak money.”
Bergman disputes this claim and counters that Jones’ attorney, Levi McCathern, insisted that the Cowboys’ owner would never allow Davis to be portrayed as part of the Jones family.
“They said, ‘What does she want?'” Bergman said. “And I said she wants to establish lineage and Jerry may or may not do it cooperatively. Levi said Jerry wouldn’t do that because of Mama Gene. Levi said Jerry said Alex will never be in a picture as part of our family as we raise money for the Salvation Army.
Jones’ side claims those words were never spoken.
A hearing Thursday to determine whether the original file would remain sealed was called off after Jones’ attorneys withdrew the motion.
The next steps in the Roller Coaster case are currently unknown.
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