Police investigating Dak Prescott claim of extortion by woman who alleged sexual assault
Police in Prosper are investigating claims that a woman iextorted Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, a department spokesperson told the Star-Telegram on Wednesday.
Prescott’s attorney went to police in Prosper to report that he was a victim of theft by coercion, police told the Star-Telegram.
The allegation comes after the woman accused Prescott of sexually assaulting her in 2017. She intends to pursue criminal charges against the quarterback, her attorney said Tuesday.
Prescott filed an 11-page lawsuit in Collin County on Monday against Victoria Shores of Fort Worth and her attorneys, Yoel Zehaie and Bethel Zehaie, saying they are trying to extort $100 million from him to settle a claim for sexual assault from 2017.
According to a letter sent to Prescott earlier this year by her attorneys, Shores said she would be “willing to forego pursuing criminal charges, along with disclosing this information to the public, in exchange for compensating her for the mental anguish she has suffered.”
Shores’ attorneys valued her damages at $100 million in the letter.
Prescott denied the sexual assault 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.
In a statement, Prescott’s attorney Levi McCathern called the allegations against his client “an extortion plot.”
Yoel Zehaie told “GBag Nation” on The Fan 105.3 FM that Shores’ attorneys were surprised when they learned of Prescott’s extortion lawsuit, but called it a “classic” move to discredit the victim. According to Zehaie, the letter they sent Prescott was a demand letter and a common practice in civil cases.
“There’s nothing extortionist about it,” Zehaie told the radio station. “But we’re just very disappointed that he would try to flip the script and make himself the victim.”
McCathern told the Star-Telegram in an email Tuesday that the letter from Shores and her attorneys was the first correspondence Prescott had received about the allegations, and Prescott took the letter to law enforcement.
According to McCathern, Prescott and Shores were never in a relationship but “they knew each other both before and after the alleged assault.
“She never mentioned that she felt any of his behavior was inappropriate,” McCathern said.
Prescott and Shores did spend time together in a group setting the day the assault supposedly occurred, McCathern said.
Staffs writers Clarence Hill Jr. and Harriet Ramos contributed to this report.