The legal battle between Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the 27-year-old woman who claimed to be his biological daughter came to an abrupt end Tuesday without the 81-year-old billionaire having to take a paternity test.
Alexandra Davis, who first filed a paternity lawsuit against Jones in 2022, agreed to dismiss her ongoing lawsuits against the Cowboys owner “with prejudice.” Jones, meanwhile, will drop his countersuit against Davis, which included a demand for $1.6 million in attorney fees.
“I will tell you that my defendants had good intentions here,” Jones told the jury in Texarkana, Texas, 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 an affair between the married Jones and her mother, Cynthia Davis, in the mid-1990s. Cynthia gave tearful testimony Monday, during which the Morning News reported that she was actually seen hugging Jones.
It is unclear what changed between the parties that brought the legal drama to an abrupt end on Tuesday. Jones’ lawyer declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.
Alexandra Davis walks into the federal courthouse in Texarkana, Texas on Monday
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones arrives at the federal courthouse in Texarkana, Texas on Monday
Cynthia Davis, center left, and her daughter Alexandra Davis walk into the federal courthouse
“I’m glad this is resolved,” Jones told reporters in Texarkana on Tuesday. “It’s not something I wanted to happen — or 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 had made with the Cowboys’ owner more than 20 years earlier.
That 1998 agreement prohibited Davis and her daughter from suing Jones or supporting a lawsuit against him that would prove his paternity.
As part of that deal, Jones reportedly paid more than $3 million for Davis through trusts.
DailyMail.com asked Jones’ attorney Chip Babcock if his client still denies being Davis’ father.
Babcock responded by saying in an email to DailyMail.com that Jones “remains committed to the 1998 agreement and is pleased that the litigation has been resolved.”
By dismissing her lawsuits, Davis agrees not to sue Jones 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 in 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 “sign anything they put in front of me.”
She said she regretted the arrangement because it deprived her daughter of the chance to have a relationship with her father.
Ultimately, Jones avoided a paternity test and did not testify in the case. In addition, his wife Eugenia and their children Charlotte, Jerry Jr. and Stephen could have been called to testify as well.