Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ordered to take paternity test in ongoing 2022 case
The two-year-old case of a woman claiming Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is her biological father has taken a dramatic turn that could finally settle the issue once and for all.
A Dallas County judge has upheld a decision that Jones must take a paternity test, as first reported by the Dallas Morning News. Lawyers for the woman, Alexandra Davis, called the ruling “a huge victory” on Wednesday.
“[The judge’s] ruling proves that being a rich, powerful person does not mean you are above the law,” attorney Kris Hayes said.
Davis alleges that she was conceived from a relationship Jones and her mother had in the mid-1990s. Court documents show that Jones agreed to financially support Alexandra and her mother in return for never publicly acknowledging Jones as the father, but Davis, now 27, brought a lawsuit in March 2022 to declare that she was not bound by that agreement.
That lawsuit was later dropped, with Davis instead seeking a ruling to force the 81-year-old billionaire to submit to definitive genetic testing. A judge had previously ruled in favor of testing in late 2022; Jones’s legal team had appealed the decision.
“Alex is in a position where she really no longer has to hide her truth or live under the thumb of fear and 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,” Hayes said.
Davis has said in court documents that the man her mother was married to at the time of her birth is not her biological father. DNA tests confirmed that claim.
A separate defamation lawsuit against Jones was later brought by Davis after claims that Jones and others in his camp tried to paint her publicly as a “shakedown artist” and an “extortionist.” That suit was partially dismissed and then refiled; Jones’s lawyers have asked for a second dismissal.
Jones is normally a fixture the the annual NFL Scouting Combine, but has not made his usual appearances in Indianapolis this week.
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