A decide has ordered Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones to take a paternity check as a part of a authorized dispute with a 26-year-old lady who claims the billionaire is her organic father.
A Texas decide issued the order for genetic testing Thursday in a paternity case introduced by Alexandra Davis, who beforehand alleged in a separate lawsuit she was conceived from a relationship Jones had along with her mom within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Attorneys for Jones didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Friday, however mentioned in courtroom filings that they intend to attraction the choice.
One in every of Davis’ legal professionals, Andrew Bergman, confirmed the choice, however didn’t instantly provide some other remark. In March, Davis sued Jones in Dallas County, asking a decide to void a authorized settlement she mentioned her mom, Cynthia Davis, reached with Jones two years after she was born. The 1998 settlement allegedly mentioned that Jones would help them financially so long as they did not publicly say he was Alexandra’s father — one thing the married proprietor of the Cowboys denied.
Davis dropped that case in April, saying that she would as a substitute search to show that Jones is her father. She filed the paternity case that month.
On Thursday, Affiliate Choose T. Jones Abendroth wrote that “after cautious consideration” she would grant Davis’ movement to have Jones bear genetic testing.
The 80-year-old Jones and his spouse, Gene, have been married in 1963. They’ve three youngsters, and all have entrance workplace roles with the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the group president and basic supervisor.
Davis’ authentic lawsuit claimed that Jones “pursued” Cynthia Davis, who was additionally married on the time, after they met whereas she was working for American Airways out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Their settlement allegedly known as for Jones to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and for Alexandra Davis to obtain a “sure month-to-month, annual and particular funding” from a belief till she was 21, in addition to lump sum funds when she turned 24, 26 and 28.
Jones additionally made headlines not too long ago after information retailers, together with North Dakota’s CBS affiliate, reported a few controversial 1957 picture Jones was noticed in that was taken exterior a highschool the place a gaggle of white college students seemed to be blocking a gaggle of Black college students from coming into the college. Jones mentioned he confirmed as much as see what was happening and to not take part within the mob.
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