Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones asks judge to dismiss paternity lawsuit, alleges extortion attempts

Jerry Jones asked a judge Monday to toss out a paternity case against him and alleged that the 25-year-old Congressional aide who claims he is her father is involved in one of «multiple monetary extortion attempts» against him and the Dallas Cowboys.

Jones' response to the lawsuit filed by Alexandra Davis says she delivered a draft of her lawsuit to Jones on an unspecified date and asked whether he would «make a deal» to «assure that he would not be publicly or privately identified» as her father.

The court motion does not identify the people who have allegedly attempted to extort Jones and the Cowboys or for how much. «The potential source(s) of those attempted extortions… will be the subject of other litigation which has been filed or will be instituted shortly,» wrote Jones' lawyers, Levi McCathern II, and Charles L. Babcock in the motion filed before a court-mandated deadline on Monday afternoon.

However, a March 10 demand letter from Babcock connects the Davis paternity lawsuit against Jones and numerous other recent Cowboys scandals to the ongoing contentious divorce battle between Jones' daughter, Charlotte Jones Anderson, and her husband Shy Anderson. The letter, obtained by ESPN, advises Shy Anderson to preserve documents «to determine whether a conspiracy exists among yourself and others including, without limitation, certain of your lawyers.»

The letter advises Shy Anderson, Jones' longtime son-in-law, to preserve documents and other evidence in 10 categories, including communications he might have had with Davis and her mother, Cynthia Davis-Spencer. Other specified topics that lawyers asked Anderson to preserve: «All efforts to obtain monies from Mr. Jones directly or indirectly» and «All efforts to obtain