Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott filed a lawsuit in Collin County on Monday against a woman who allegedly is trying to extort $495.7 million from him to settle a claim for sexual assault from 2017.
Prescott is asking for $10 million in damages for pain and suffering and mental anguish. The case was filed in Collin County, Texas, against a Fort Worth woman and her attorneys, Bethel T. Zehaie and Yoel T. Zehaie. Prescott denied the claim in a text to the Star-Telegram on Monday. “She is trying to get $100 million from me to ‘not report’ a rape case I obviously did not do,” Prescott said in the text. His attorney Levi McCarthern issued a statement.
“Recently, Mr. Prescott found himself the subject of an extortion plot,” McCathern said. “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.”
