Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked at Tuesday’s league meetings about the sexual assault allegation against quarterback Dak Prescott.
Prescott has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the parking lot of a Dallas strip club back in 2017. The quarterback, who has denied these claims, is suing the woman for extortion, authorities are looking into both matters.
“We are very knowledgeable of it,” Jones said, via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. “Of anybody, I can say you work through the legal aspects of it. So, very aware of it. Not uncomfortable with it in any way. Hate it that the issue has to have any negative aspect to it all for everybody concerned. I can say that we’re just very aware of the details and very comfortable.”
Jones himself is facing a lawsuit for sexual assault, as well as the ongoing case of a 27-year-old woman who says the Cowboys owner is her biological father.
As for Prescott, his representation is saying the encounter between the three-time Pro Bowler and the woman alleging he assaulted her was consensual.
“Recently, Mr. Prescott found himself the subject of an extortion plot,” Prescott’s lawyer Levi McCathern said recently. “The Defendant and her legal team have threatened to go public with a completely fabricated story of sexual assault from nearly a decade ago, and demanded that Mr. Prescott immediately pay $100 Million in exchange for her not pressing false charges with the authorities.
“Mr. Prescott — a new father to a baby girl — has great empathy for survivors of sexual assault. He fervently believes that all perpetrators of such crimes should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. To be clear, Mr. Prescott has never engaged in any nonconsensual, sexual conduct with anyone. Lies hurt. Especially, malicious lies. We will not allow the Defendant and her legal team to profit from this attempt to extort millions from Mr. Prescott.”