“She really wanted to fight for her rights and stand up for herself,” said Robert Fitzpatrick, one of Doe’s lawyers. “She wanted the behavior to stop. She knew he had other photos, so she didn’t know what he was capable of doing or planning on doing.”
Asked for comment, Jones’s lawyer, Howard E. King Jr., sent a lengthy statement that began by assuming Deadspin most likely had been alerted to the case by one of Doe’s lawyers, and alleging that Doe’s lawyers had “misevaluated the case,” that “Doe provoked Jones,” and shaming Doe based on her age and her past relationships, even using the phrase “colorful past.” (For those reasons, the full statement is not being republished here.)
Reached by phone after the email exchange and asked if his statement that “she’s not the most sterling character” meant that Doe deserved what happened, King said “I’m not saying she deserved anything. I defended my client the way I thought he should be defended. He had no choice… she was asking for unreasonable amounts of money.”
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(Doe’s initial complaint didn’t ask for a specific amount. King said Doe had asked for $2.8 million. When Deadspin ran that figure by Fitzpatrick, he said that was the amount they requested from the jury, but before that, Jones’s legal team never engaged in “meaningful settlement negotiations.”)
Jones, who played professionally for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, and the Florida Marlins,
Jones, 43, spent 10 seasons in the major leagues playing for the Twins, Cubs, Tigers and Marlins. He was hired in 2016 as a hitting coach for the Washington Nationals under former manager Dusty Baker, and served as Nationals hitting coach for two seasons. He also was a minor-league hitting coach in the Padres organization from 2012 to 2014.
Jones, who was suspended by the Nationals in Sept. 2017, days after the lawsuit was filed. The woman originally sued the Nationals as well, accusing the club of ignoring prior incidents involving Jones, but she dropped the team from the lawsuit last year, according to court records. The Nationals declined to comment Thursday about the case.
The Nationals, who were originally a co-defendant in the lawsuit, were dismissed by an agreement among the parties. Several other causes of action brought up in the lawsuit, including intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, also were dropped before trial; Fitzpatrick said Doe’s legal team dismissed those as part of their litigation strategy.
In the deposition, Jones says he was suspended with pay by the Nationals when news of the lawsuit broke on Oct. 6, 2017—the first day of the team’s National League divisional series against the Cubs. Jones did not return for any game of the series, which the Nationals lost, and after the season ended he said he was told by assistant general manager Bob Miller that his expiring contract would not be renewed.
Other details per Deadspin:
In the deposition during the lawsuit, Jones explained his justification for sending the photo. These questions, asked by Fitzpatrick, follow discussion of Facebook messages that showed Jones telling Doe he “wouldn’t do anything silly” with the photo.
Q: Okay. So what does — what does it mean that you’re not going to do anything silly with ‘em?
A.: I’m not going to do anything silly. Just — it doesn’t have a specific meaning.
Q: Does it — does it mean that you’re not going to share the photo with anyone
A: It doesn’t mean anything in particular.· It just means I’m not going to do anything silly with them.
Q: Did you think it would be okay to share this photo with anyone?
A: I think it’s — if — I think if you send things, you open yourself up for someone to intercept something, something to get out, so I mean, anything can happen with anything that you send, any photo you send to anyone at any time.
Q: Does that mean you think it’s okay for you to share this photo with anyone?
A: I think based on this photo — there’s no face in it. I don’t know whose it is. I mean, whether I shared it or not, I mean. My thinking is different than everyone else’s.
Jones also said he had gotten a new phone since he and Doe ended their contact, and that he regularly erased messages and photos from people as he received them. On top of that, he “cleared” his old phone before getting a new one. From the deposition:
Q: Now, when you erased the phone before you turned it in to AT&T, you knew there was a lawsuit against you accusing you of sending pictures, right?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you think that your phone would be important in that case — in this case?
A: No.
Q: Did you have any understanding that there would be relevant pictures on the phone that had to do with the lawsuit when — at the time you erased it?
A: No, I wasn’t thinking about that at the time.
Later in the deposition, Jones said the deletion happened before the lawsuit was “brought to my attention.” He also said information like contacts were transferred from his old phone to his old phone, just not messages he deleted.
Q: And you erased them after the lawsuit was brought to your attention?
A: I erased them before the lawsuit was brought to my attention.
Asked about the deletions, King said his client had a “habit and practice of deleting things. He didn’t really have any legal representation until about two weeks after he was notified, and I’m not even sure when exactly he was served.”
During the deposition, Jones offered his account of what happened with Doe. He said they had sex several times but were never in a “relationship,” and they did fight over text messages after she didn’t go that day to pick up a sweatshirt he had left for her father at the hotel. At one point, Jones said, Doe told him that she needed space and he wrote back: “Space from what?”
Jones recalled telling her, “You go your way and I’ll go mine. Delete my numbers. I’ll delete yours,” and she responded by texting, “Typical nigga. You’re just like everybody else. I knew you’d do this. I went back and took all my likes off of pictures of you on Facebook. I didn’t want people to know that I even knew you.” Then Jones blocked her on social media.
A few days after the sweatshirt argument, Jones said, he saw Wolf’s Facebook post about the hats and sent Wolf a number of photos. He said he also included the picture of her breasts, and also a picture she sent of a woman wearing a tank top and shorts, without a face shown. As noted in the lawsuit, Jones wrote to Wolf, “Ask ya homegirl if she wants these back? I see your post and she’s on some bull shit. She’s loony and the type of chick that makes a nigga wanna stay single.” Here’s Jones explaining why he did that:
A: “She wanted to give away hats. Right? She wanted to be nice. Right? I wanted to be nice and say, ‘Hey, if you’re giving away all these hats, if it’s such a big deal, why don’t you give away all these other things that you sent me, including the facial products and the clothes and the shoes, all these other things.’”
Jones said he then blocked Doe’s number and her profiles on all social media, but received blocked calls, an email, and texts from unknown numbers talking about her—including one that said she died in a car crash. He also called Doe “stalker-ish” five times.
“It was a character assassination,” Fitzpatrick said of Jones’s defense strategy, “because he won’t own up to his responsibility.”
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