(CNN) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been sued by a woman who claims he is her biological father, Dallas County court documents show. The lawsuit itself has been sealed, but the motion to seal provides some details about the claims.
In the case of Alexandra Davis v. Jerral W. Jones, the motion to seal states that Davis “claims that Defendant is Plaintiff’s biological father and makes several additional allegations that Defendant paid for Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s mother to keep this information confidential.” .
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a 2021 photo.
According to court documents, both parties granted the motion to seal the original lawsuit, stating that “the defendant has a serious and substantial interest in keeping the plaintiff’s allegations from becoming public knowledge.” The filing says that Davis can ask the court to unseal the full lawsuit at any time.
Judge Kristina Williams granted the motion to seal the lawsuit on Wednesday, pending a full hearing on March 31, according to Dallas County records.
The Dallas Morning News, which reports that it obtained a full copy of the lawsuit before it was sealed, says Davis is asking the court to rule that she is not legally bound by the confidentiality agreement she says her mother signed.
The newspaper and ESPN, which also claims to have obtained the suit, report that Jerry Jones denied paternity but agreed to pay $375,000 to Davis’s mother and also set up two trust funds for Davis, according to the suit.
ESPN and the newspaper report that Jerry Jones met Davis’s mother, Cynthia Davis Spencer, when she was working at an American Airlines ticket counter at the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas. Davis is 25 years old, the media reported.
CNN reached out Thursday to attorneys for Davis and Jones, as well as Jones’s personal spokesman, Jim Wilkinson. Those messages were not immediately returned.
