Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ legal battle with the 27-year-old woman who claims to be his biological daughter came to an abrupt end Tuesday without the 81-year-old billionaire facing any paternity tests.
Alexandra Davis, who first filed a paternity suit against Jones in 2022, has agreed to dismiss her pending claims against the Cowboys owner “with prejudice.” Jones, meanwhile, will drop her countersuit against Davis, which included a $1.6 million demand to cover attorneys’ fees.
“I will tell you that my defendants here had good intentions,” Jones told the Texarkana, Texas, jury, as quoted by the Dallas Morning News“Certainly, in the case of the mother. She is a working mother.”
Davis previously claimed in legal documents that she was conceived as a result of a relationship between Jones, who was married, and her mother, Cynthia Davis, in the mid-1990s. Cynthia gave tearful testimony Monday, where the Morning News reported she was seen hugging Jones.
It is unclear what changed between the parties to bring the legal drama to a sudden end on Tuesday. Jones’ lawyer did not elaborate when contacted by DailyMail.com.
Alexandra Davis enters federal court in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones arrives at federal court in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday
Cynthia Davis, center left, and her daughter Alexandra Davis enter federal court.
“I’m glad this is resolved,” Jones told reporters in Texarkana on Tuesday. “It’s not something I wanted to happen, or that we wanted to happen, but I’m glad we got it resolved.”
Jones’ countersuit against Davis and her mother accused them of violating an agreement Cynthia reached with the Cowboys owner more than 20 years earlier.
That 1998 agreement prohibited Davis and her daughter from suing Jones or supporting any lawsuit against him establishing his paternity.
As part of that settlement, Jones allegedly paid more than $3 million through trusts to Davis.
DailyMail.com asked Jones’ lawyer, Chip Babcock, if his client still denies being Davis’ father.
In response, Babcock told DailyMail.com in an email that Jones “continues to abide by the 1998 agreement and is pleased to have resolved the litigation.”
By dismissing his claims with prejudice, Davis agrees not to sue Jones again in the future.
Cynthia, 62, testified Monday that she and Jones had a romantic relationship when she worked as an American Airlines employee in Little Rock during the 1990s.
The elder Davis said she was “very desperate” after having Alexandra despite hiring lawyers to represent her in the 1998 settlement.
Cynthia said she would have signed “anything that was put in front of me.”
She said she regretted the agreement because it denied her daughter the opportunity to have a relationship with her father.
In the end, Jones avoided taking a paternity test and testifying in the case. What’s more, his wife, Eugenia, and children Charlotte, Jerry Jr. and Stephen could also have been called to testify.
