DALLAS, Texas -- Earlier this offseason, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott filed a lawsuit in Collin County -- where the Cowboys' team headquarters in Frisco, Texas, are located -- accusing a woman of a $100 million extortion attempt by using the threat of a false sexual-assault allegation, according to the Dallas Morning News. The lawsuit states the alleged incident took place in 2017.
"Mr. Prescott -- a new father to a baby girl -- has great empathy for survivors of sexual assault," Levi McCarthern, Prescott's attorney, said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News at the time. "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."
On Wednesday, Prescott's alleged accuser dropped the lawsuit she had filed in Dallas County and is moving the case to Collin County "for purposes of convenience" because Collin County is where Prescott filed his own suit, attorney Yoel Zehaie said, according to WFAA.
Zahaie also said that reports indicating that his client had dropped the suit entirely were "misleading." The accuser's motion for a "non-suit without prejudice" allows her to re-file the case in Dallas County at a later date if she wants to. Now, Prescott's alleged accuser's suit and his suit alleging extortion are going head-to-head in Collin County.
"I know the truth, I'm confident in what we filed, very confident in what we filed," Prescott said Friday in Dallas. "I know some things have changed in their sense and where they filed, but that doesn't have any weighing what we're doing and how we're going about our lawsuit."
Prescott, who is entering the final season of a four-year, $160 million contract in 2024, was clear that he didn't think the legal suits will have an effect on his negotiations on a contract extension with the Cowboys.
"Has nothing to do with it," Prescott said.
