4 members of the Cowboys cheerleading squad had been paid a confidential settlement of $2.4 million by the workforce, stemming from an alleged 2015 incident at AT&T Stadium by which workforce exec Richard Dalrymple was accused of voyeurism, in keeping with paperwork obtained by ESPN.
Dalrymple — the longtime senior VP of public relations and communications who lately introduced he’s retiring — was accused by a cheerleader of “standing behind a partial wall of their locker room along with his iPhone prolonged” as they modified, the ESPN report detailed Wednesday.
The ladies acquired $399,523.27 every following the alleged incident.
Dalrymple, who was additionally accused of taking “upskirt” pictures of Jerry Jones’ daughter, Charlotte Jones Anderson, through the 2015 NFL Draft, denied the allegations in a press release.
“Individuals who know me, co-workers, the media and colleagues, know who I'm and what I’m about,” Dalrymple mentioned. “I perceive the very critical nature of those claims and don't take them flippantly. The accusations are, nevertheless, false. One was unintended and the opposite merely didn't occur. The whole lot that was alleged was totally investigated years in the past, and I cooperated totally.”
Each alleged incidents had been investigated totally, a Cowboys consultant mentioned, per ESPN, with Jim Wilkinson, a communication guide for the workforce, stating “the investigation was dealt with in line with greatest authorized and HR practices and the investigation discovered no proof of wrongdoing.”
Wilkinson added, “If any wrongdoing had been discovered, Wealthy would have been terminated instantly.”
ESPN obtained a signed copy of the Might 2016 settlement settlement, which “features a nondisclosure settlement by which the 4 ladies, three of their spouses and Cowboys officers agreed to by no means converse publicly about their allegations.”
On the alleged incident, a former cheerleader instructed ESPN, “It was a really … shut the guide, don’t discuss it, this individual goes to remain in his place … They simply made it go away.”
In regard to the “upskirt” allegation, longtime Cowboys fan Randy Horton claimed he noticed Dalrymple seem to take pictures of Charlotte within the workforce’s “battle room” through the 2015 NFL Draft.
“The primary time he reached out from a sitting place behind her, and he or she is standing along with her again to him, and did it as soon as … He regarded on the display, touched the display after which did it once more. The second time, he’s sitting in a chair on the nook of the desk on the left and he held his cellphone beneath the nook of the desk with the digicam aspect dealing with up the place she was standing. And did it once more,” Horton instructed the publication.
The workforce was made conscious of the accusation in Might 2015, per the report, with a supply noting HR considered the footage and “discovered no wrongdoing by Dalrymple.”
Dalrymple mentioned in a press release the accusations “had nothing to do with my retirement,” and that he was “solely contacted about this story after I had retired.”
He spoke to The Dallas Morning Information earlier this month about his determination to retire after 32 years.
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