Dean Jones’ secret son sues widow for slice of fortune

The secret son of the late Victorian cricket great Dean Jones is taking legal action to gain a slice of his father’s fortunes.

Dean Jones in his playing days.

The love child of Dean Jones is suing the late Australian cricket legend’s widow for a slice of his father’s fortunes.

The Herald Sun can reveal 12-year-old Koby Dean Hamilton has launched Supreme Court action against Jane Jones, 13 months after his ­father died suddenly in India.

Court documents reveal the value of Jones’ estate is “yet to be determined”.

In the documents, lodged through his litigation guardian and mother Kerri-Anne Hamilton, Koby argues his father’s will, made in March 2012, does not make “adequate provision” for him.”

Ms Hamilton was Jones’ secret mistress for almost a decade. Koby was born in ­August 2009.

In 2010, with rumours swirling, Jones was forced to admit his nine-year affair with Koby’s mum, a flight attendant he had met in the late 1990s at a celebrity golf day.

“Following an on-and-off relationship with a woman, a child was conceived and subsequently delivered,” Jones said in a statement to the Herald Sun at the time.

“I can also confirm that I have supported the mother and child more generously than was agreed. At no stage, have I not met my obligations. My immediate aim is to seek the forgiveness and understanding of family.”

Koby, through his mother, argues his father’s will does not make ‘adequate provision’ for him. Picture: Instagram

Dean Jones in his playing days.

An originating motion filed with the court this month details how Jones “had a moral duty and responsibility” to include his son in his will.

“The distribution of the deceased’s estate in accordance with the deceased’s will is such as to not make adequate provision for the proper maintenance and support of (Koby),” it states.

He is asking the court order Mrs Jones, as executor of her husband’s will and trustee of his estate, to give him a share of the family’s estate, and also rule his legal costs for taking action to be paid from the estate.

The global cricketing community surrounded Jones’ grief-stricken wife, Jane, and their daughters, Isabella and Phoebe, following the Order of Australia recipient’s death.

Jones – a fearless batsman who played 52 Tests between 1984 and 1992, scoring 3631 runs at an average of 46.55 – was 59 when he suffered a stroke in his Mumbai hotel on September 24 last year.

He was quarantining in the hotel as part of Covid requirements before planning to commentate the 2020 Indian Premier League.

Former Aussie fast bowler Brett Lee was quarantining alongside him and saw Jones collapse. He ran to his side and desperately tried to save his life by performing CPR.

Jones could not be revived, and his death rocked the sporting world.

Koby was born in August 2009. Picture: Instagram

Jones with Kerri-Anne Hamilton.

At the time, Mrs Jones, who was married to the cricketer for 34 years, said she and her “girls” were “devastated and saddened beyond belief”.

“My beautiful husband, the love of my life has lived his life with every bit of energy at his disposal, and he leaves an enormous gap in our lives which can never be filled,” Mrs Jones said.

“He leaves us with so many wonderful memories that will last forever.”

Speaking out after the 2019 Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductee’s death, Ms Hamilton said Jones was her son’s “hero”.

She said her son had a simple response when she told him his father had died: “It’s OK, Mum. I know my dad loved me.”

Ms Hamilton has earlier revealed how Jones did not meet Koby until he was almost two years old but that after that, they were both very much in each other’s lives.

She said Koby had last spoken to his father on a video chat about two days ­before his death.

Ms Hamilton has always denied knowing that Jones was married when they first met.

Ms Hamilton and the Jones family could not be contacted for comment.