Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant told Rolling Stone magazine that it was owner Jerry Jones who originally tipped him off that there might be a damning video of him.
“The first time I heard that was from Mr. Jones last season: He said there was a tape of me that might get out,” says Bryant. He’d scoffed at Jones, saying that no such thing existed.
Earlier this year, national reporters set the sports world ablaze with rumors of a video of Bryant in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
The Dallas Morning News reported in February that the Lancaster police department stated there was no video of the incident. Details of what we found here.
Rolling Stone asked former Bryant adviser David Wells if he had leaked the story, either to the Joneses or to the media. He denied it, saying that if Bryant thought so, then so be it. “But have you seen the police report? Have you heard the 911 call? Something happened in that parking lot, and I didn’t drum it up!”
Bryant appears on a regional cover of Rolling Stone this week. The issue will appear on newsstands Friday.
How much "Dez Rules" cost Bryant
The Rolling Stone report also gets into detail about the purported "Dez Rules" and his relationship with Wells.
Wells served as a middle man between the Cowboys and the receiver until this year.
The so-called “Dez Rules” that Wells and the Cowboys put in place before the start of the 2012 season to help Bryant stay out of trouble are no longer in place.
Rolling Stone reports that in a contract, according to Bryant’s legal team, he agreed to pay Wells $17,000 a month for 24- hour security. We detailed the full Dez Rules in this article.
Bryant tried to cut ties with Wells, whom he called a liar and a thief to Rolling Stone.
“I was done with him, man – I’d seen through his (expletive),” says Bryant. “But then the thing happened with my mom, and that just let him right back in again.” (Bryant was charged with a misdemeanor for domestic assault in 2012, but it was dropped when Angela Bryant begged the district attorney to not pursue the case). “They treat me like I’m some kind of one-man crime wave. I told Mr. Jones, 'I’m not Michael Irvin,' but he wasn’t trying to hear me out.”
We detailed the Wells-Bryant relationship in a recent article here.
The relationship between Wells and Bryant is one the Cowboys have encouraged. The Cowboys told Rolling Stone that they have paid Wells to provide background information on prospective players, but say that they’ve never hired him to work with individual players on the team.
The money trail
Bryant claims Wells took money from him.
Rolling Stone reports: According to a review of Bryant's finances by an accounting firm he hired last February, between $700,000 and $900,000 of Bryant’s money went to Wells or unidentified accounts. This included $377,000 paid to Wells or companies owned by him (part of which was the $17,000 monthly payments), an estimated $85,000 went to insure six cars not in Bryant’s name, at least one of which belonged to Wells, and checks made out to Bryant that his financial team still hasn’t been able to locate. Wells denies any wrongdoing. “I’ve made over $10 million, so why would I need his money?” says Wells. “Do you know who took care of Dez during the lockout? It was me, that’s who!”
Bryant, 26, began breaking business ties with Wells and other longtime associates a few weeks after The Dallas Morning News reported in late December that three Cowboys employees had expressed concern over the amount of people living at or dropping by Bryant’s DeSoto home.
Wells told Rolling Stone that he had spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on Bryant and his family; let him live rent-free the first three years he was in Dallas; paid at least part of Bryant’s jewelry debts, a total sum of nearly $1 million; created lucrative deals for him with Air Jordan and BioSteel – and never received “a dime back for any of that from Dez.”
However, Bryant’s tax adviser John Karls told the magazine a vastly different story. He claims there was a bank account set up under the name “David Wells c/o Dez Bryant” that Dez couldn’t touch, and it received $75,000 in wires from the deal with BioSteel. Additionally, Karls says, electronic payments were made out of Bryant’s accounts for mortgage and monthly bills with Wells’ name in the transaction description during 2010-13, the same time Wells says Bryant was living rent-free at his house. As for the nearly $1 million jewelry debt? Bryant took a bank loan from Chambers Bank to pay that. Presented with these facts, Wells responds: “If Roc Nation wants to bring charges, they’re welcome to. But they better be aware of everything that’s out there, ’cause I’m gonna be able to depose Dez Bryant – and I know things that they don’t.”
Dez Bryant: Jerry Jones told me about damning video; I said, 'I'm not Michael Irvin'
EDIT: the whole interview
Dez Bryant: The Survivor
“The first time I heard that was from Mr. Jones last season: He said there was a tape of me that might get out,” says Bryant. He’d scoffed at Jones, saying that no such thing existed.
Earlier this year, national reporters set the sports world ablaze with rumors of a video of Bryant in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
The Dallas Morning News reported in February that the Lancaster police department stated there was no video of the incident. Details of what we found here.
Rolling Stone asked former Bryant adviser David Wells if he had leaked the story, either to the Joneses or to the media. He denied it, saying that if Bryant thought so, then so be it. “But have you seen the police report? Have you heard the 911 call? Something happened in that parking lot, and I didn’t drum it up!”
Bryant appears on a regional cover of Rolling Stone this week. The issue will appear on newsstands Friday.
How much "Dez Rules" cost Bryant
The Rolling Stone report also gets into detail about the purported "Dez Rules" and his relationship with Wells.
Wells served as a middle man between the Cowboys and the receiver until this year.
The so-called “Dez Rules” that Wells and the Cowboys put in place before the start of the 2012 season to help Bryant stay out of trouble are no longer in place.
Rolling Stone reports that in a contract, according to Bryant’s legal team, he agreed to pay Wells $17,000 a month for 24- hour security. We detailed the full Dez Rules in this article.
Bryant tried to cut ties with Wells, whom he called a liar and a thief to Rolling Stone.
“I was done with him, man – I’d seen through his (expletive),” says Bryant. “But then the thing happened with my mom, and that just let him right back in again.” (Bryant was charged with a misdemeanor for domestic assault in 2012, but it was dropped when Angela Bryant begged the district attorney to not pursue the case). “They treat me like I’m some kind of one-man crime wave. I told Mr. Jones, 'I’m not Michael Irvin,' but he wasn’t trying to hear me out.”
We detailed the Wells-Bryant relationship in a recent article here.
The relationship between Wells and Bryant is one the Cowboys have encouraged. The Cowboys told Rolling Stone that they have paid Wells to provide background information on prospective players, but say that they’ve never hired him to work with individual players on the team.
The money trail
Bryant claims Wells took money from him.
Rolling Stone reports: According to a review of Bryant's finances by an accounting firm he hired last February, between $700,000 and $900,000 of Bryant’s money went to Wells or unidentified accounts. This included $377,000 paid to Wells or companies owned by him (part of which was the $17,000 monthly payments), an estimated $85,000 went to insure six cars not in Bryant’s name, at least one of which belonged to Wells, and checks made out to Bryant that his financial team still hasn’t been able to locate. Wells denies any wrongdoing. “I’ve made over $10 million, so why would I need his money?” says Wells. “Do you know who took care of Dez during the lockout? It was me, that’s who!”
Bryant, 26, began breaking business ties with Wells and other longtime associates a few weeks after The Dallas Morning News reported in late December that three Cowboys employees had expressed concern over the amount of people living at or dropping by Bryant’s DeSoto home.
Wells told Rolling Stone that he had spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on Bryant and his family; let him live rent-free the first three years he was in Dallas; paid at least part of Bryant’s jewelry debts, a total sum of nearly $1 million; created lucrative deals for him with Air Jordan and BioSteel – and never received “a dime back for any of that from Dez.”
However, Bryant’s tax adviser John Karls told the magazine a vastly different story. He claims there was a bank account set up under the name “David Wells c/o Dez Bryant” that Dez couldn’t touch, and it received $75,000 in wires from the deal with BioSteel. Additionally, Karls says, electronic payments were made out of Bryant’s accounts for mortgage and monthly bills with Wells’ name in the transaction description during 2010-13, the same time Wells says Bryant was living rent-free at his house. As for the nearly $1 million jewelry debt? Bryant took a bank loan from Chambers Bank to pay that. Presented with these facts, Wells responds: “If Roc Nation wants to bring charges, they’re welcome to. But they better be aware of everything that’s out there, ’cause I’m gonna be able to depose Dez Bryant – and I know things that they don’t.”
Dez Bryant: Jerry Jones told me about damning video; I said, 'I'm not Michael Irvin'
EDIT: the whole interview
Dez Bryant: The Survivor
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and the media was never held responsible for not supplying this damming story
