Jerry Jones and his legal team have requested the dismissal of a paternity case filed against him earlier this month after alleging the plaintiff, Alexandra Davis, attempted to extort the Cowboys owner for money prior to filing the lawsuit, according to a report from ESPN.
The request was made Monday in Dallas County court, and alleged Davis, a 25-year-old congressional aide, was involved in one of ”multiple monetary extortion attempts” against Jones and the team.
According to Jones’s lawyers, Davis sent a draft of the lawsuit to the 79-year-old on an unspecified date prior to filing on March 3, and asked if he would “make a deal” to “assure that he would not be publicly or privately identified” as her father.
“She is not entitled to the relief she requests, and the Court does not have jurisdiction to grant it,” Jones’s lawyers wrote, per ESPN. The report then notes that Jones denied all allegations made by Davis in her lawsuit before asking the judge to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice.”
In response to Jones’s motion, ESPN reported that Davis’s lawyer, Andrew A. Bergman, denied the claim before challenging Jones to “put up any evidence that anyone demanded any money, period. It’s a shame that Jerry Jones wants to further damage his own daughter by now claiming she is extorting him. I challenge them to put up any evidence that supports either one of these defamatory and false claims.”
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