Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seeks $1.6 million in lawsuit against proclaimed daughter

First, Jerry Jones refused to give contract extensions to the three best players on the Dallas Cowboys. Now, he’s seeking to recover the legal expenses he incurred from the paternity lawsuit filed against him by Alexandra Davis, the woman who claims to be his daughter. Sorry, but is the billionaire hurting for money or something?

No, just stingy…and vindictive.

Where does the Jerry Jones-Alexandra Davis trial stand now?

It’s been an ongoing legal battle between these two for a few years now. After Davis claimed that Jones was her father in 2022, a judge ordered he take a paternity test, which Jones has appealed. Jones’ attorneys had accused Davis of extortion and so Davis sued Jones for defamation. That suit was dismissed, and now Jerry is countersuing, saying that Davis and her mother Cynthia breached their settlement agreement from 1989.

In the 1989 agreement, which a judge has since determined is a valid agreement, Jones was to provide financial support for Alexandra from childhood to adulthood in exchange for the Davises never revealing him as the father. Jones said he held up his end of the contract, but the Davises did not, breaching the contract with the paternity test request. Now, he’s suing her for the $1.6 million he spent in legal expenses.

“There was no threat to go public,” explained Davis’ attorneys Andrew Bergman and Jay Gray. “Quite the contrary. Rather than submit to a simple private genetic test, Mr. Jones chose to spend at least 1.6 million dollars that he is now suing his daughter for.”

Indeed, Davis’ attorneys had sent Jones a notice early on in the lawsuit about being discrete and cooperating in the paternity test without the intention of it ever going public, but Jones dragged it out and is now suing for the money it cost him to deal with it. In doing all of this, he’s brought much more attention to the agreement he so badly wanted confidential over the last 25 years.

Jones will testify in court next week

Jones’ countersuit will go to jury trial starting next Monday and the Cowboys owner is expected to testify. Jones continues to deny being Davis’ father, despite accusing them of breaching the contract which itself admits that he is. It’s also possible that members of Jones’ family, including his wife Eugenia, son Stephen, daughter Charlotte, and ex-son-in-law Shy Anderson, could testify in court as well. Both Cynthia and Alexandra Davis will also be called to the witness stand.

The countersuit claims that Jones sent a combined total of $1.9 billion to Davis, from 230 different payments, a $33,000 “Sweet 16″ birthday party, and a $70,000+ Range Rover, plus her college tuition and several vacations. Jones has also accused the Davises of breaching the contract six years ago. According to the agreement, the monthly payments were to end when Alexandra turned 21 years old. The suit claims that Cynthia met with an attorney at that point asking for more money from Jones, who did not agree, and later discovered she’d disclosed some of the contract agreement to a third party. The suit then accuses the Davises of breaching the contract at that point and again in 2022 when the initial paternity suit against him began.

Jones is asking for Cynthia to continue abiding by the terms of the 1989 settlement agreement, to pay for all of his attorneys’ fees, the costs of the lawsuit, and any other potential consolation.