Alexandra Davis is a 25-year-old congressional aide who grew up in North Texas who is alleging that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is actually her biological father.
Davis filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that her mother Cynthia had a relationship with Jones in the mid-1990s and following Alexandra's birth, reached a settlement to financially support mother and child as long as they didn't publicly identify Jones as her father.
Alexandra is asking the courts to find that she isn't "legally bound by the agreement between Jones and her mother if she were to attempt to legally establish that he is her father."
She also doesn't want to be sued or lose her financial trust, and is also seeking declaration from the court that such settlement agreements should be "unenforceable" in Texas.
The lawsuit says that Jones and his lawyers negotiated a settlement with Cynthia Davis that would "exchange money for silence." A lump sum payment of $375,000 was made to Cynthia, and two trusts were set up for Alexandra, of which she received a "certain monthly, annual and special funding" from until she turned 21 according to the Dallas News, and yearly lump sums when she turned 24, 26 and 28.
The lawsuit alleges that Jones barred Alexandra Davis, who was a 1-year-old at the time of the settlement, from ever seeking to legally establish paternity.
The lawsuit states that Alexandra has spent her life concealing her father's identity, and that Jones' only role in her life is to "shun" her and "coerce her from ever disclosing his identity."
It's unclear why Alexandra Davis filed the lawsuit now, though the lawsuit mentions health concerns of her mother.
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