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Judge orders Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to perform paternity test in ongoing case in which 26-year-old woman believes she was conceived from an affair
A judge has ordered Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to take a paternity test as part of a legal dispute with a 26-year-old woman who claims the billionaire is her biological father.
A Texas judge issued the genetic testing order Thursday in a paternity case brought by Alexandra Davis, who previously claimed in a separate lawsuit that she was conceived out of a relationship Jones had with her mother in the mid-1990s.
Jones’ lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday, but said in court documents that they intend to appeal the decision.
One of Davis’s attorneys, Andrew Bergman, confirmed the decision, but did not immediately offer any other comment.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been ordered to perform a paternity test in an ongoing case
Alexandra Davis (right) previously alleged in a lawsuit against Jones that she was conceived out of an affair with Jones and her mother Cynthia (left) that occurred in the mid-1990s.
In March, Davis sued Jones in Dallas County, asking a judge to vacate a legal agreement that she said her mother, Cynthia Davis, had reached with Jones two years after she was born.
The 1998 agreement reportedly said Jones would support them financially as long as they didn’t publicly say he was Alexandra’s father, something the Cowboys’ married owner denied.
Davis dropped that case in April, saying he would instead seek to prove Jones is his father. She filed the paternity case that month.
On Thursday, Associate Justice T. Jones Abendroth wrote that “after careful consideration” he would grant Davis’ motion for Jones to undergo genetic testing.
Jones has been married to his wife Gene since 1963 and has three children with her.
Jones, 80, and his wife, Gene, were married in 1963. They have three children, all of whom have front-office roles with the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the team’s president and general manager.
Davis’ original lawsuit claimed that Jones was “pursuing” Cynthia Davis, who was also married at the time, after they met while she was working for American Airlines in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Their agreement reportedly required Jones to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and for Alexandra Davis to receive “certain monthly, yearly and special financing” from a trust until she turned 21, as well as lump sum payments when she turned 24, 26 and 28.