NFL says it won't investigate settlement between Dallas Cowboys and cheerleaders in voyeurism claim

The NFL will not be opening an investigation into the events surrounding the Dallas Cowboys' $2.4 million confidential settlement with four members of their cheerleading squad who accused a now-former team executive of voyeurism in their locker room in 2015, a league spokesman told ESPN on Friday.

The cheerleaders' allegations, along with an additional allegation of voyeurism against Richard Dalrymple, the Cowboys' longtime senior vice president for public relations and communications, are considered «a club matter,» NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said.

«The club handled the matter,» McCarthy said Friday.

The allegations involving Dalrymple were first reported by ESPN on Wednesday. According to documents obtained by ESPN and people with knowledge of the situation, the cheerleaders accused Dalrymple of using his security key card to enter the back door of their locked dressing room during an event at AT&T Stadium on Sept. 2, 2015. One of the women alleged she clearly saw Dalrymple standing behind a partial wall with his iPhone extended toward them as they were changing their clothes, according to several people with knowledge of the events and letters sent by attorneys for the cheerleaders to the team.

In the second allegation, a Cowboys fan who was watching a livestream from the team's war room during the 2015 NFL draft swore in an affidavit that he saw Dalrymple take «upskirt» photos of Charlotte Jones Anderson, a team senior vice president and the daughter of owner Jerry Jones. The alleged incident was raised by the cheerleaders' attorneys during settlement talks and cited in the final document, which includes a nondisclosure agreement barring the cheerleaders, their spouses, and Cowboys officials from discussing either