Ashley and Doug Benefield were moving to Maryland on September 27, 2020, and were packing to move to Ashley Bnefield’s mother’s house in Florida when an altercation occurred. It was during ...

SARASOTA, Fla. – A former ballerina was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of her estranged husband at her Florida home in 2020. The sentencing came about four ...

After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ballerina charged with second-degree murder for shooting her estranged husband Doug, began in the summer of 2024. In the lead-up ...

Manslaughter was a lesser offense than the second-degree murder Ashley Benefield, 32, was charged with after she shot her husband, Doug Benefield, on Sept. 27, 2020. She faces up to 30 years in ...

Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, in September 2020. On Tuesday, Doug’s family, including his adult daughter ...

The former ballerina convicted of killing her well-heeled husband — in a sensational case that came to be known as the “Black Swan murder” — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Former ballet dancer Ashley Benefield killed her husband in 2020 and maintains she acted in self defense Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Ashley Benefield, a former ballerina, speaks exclusively in a “20/20” interview about her trial and her husband Doug Benefield’s murder case. Doug Benefield’s family disagrees with Ashley ...

A domestic violence expert testified in the Ashley Benefield murder trial Monday that there may have been clear signs of abuse in the couple’s relationship before she shot her husband dead.

On a night in September 2020, Ashley Benefield walked to her neighbor's house and said she shot her husband Doug Benefield in self-defense. But was it? The former ballerina and bikini model was ...

Ashley Benefield was taken in for questioning. Tommie Benefield, Doug's cousin, said two lawyers were at the police station when Ashley arrived during the fifth episode of "Black Swan Murder," a ...