A 26-year-old woman on Monday filed a federal defamation suit against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a longtime Arkansas friend and a Cowboys' spokesman, alleging the three men "initiated a deliberate plan" to portray the billionaire's "own daughter ... as an 'extortionist' and a 'shakedown artist' whose motivation was money and greed."
Alexandra Davis, a Congressional aide, sought recognition as Jones' daughter in a lawsuit filed last year that said Jones paid her $375,000 and set up two trusts to conceal that he was Davis' biological father. The new lawsuit says that in the weeks after Davis' March 2022 filing, Jones and his representatives waged a public campaign attacking her character, "based knowingly on false statements and accusations.