four months after Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter. Ashley’s defense team had argued that she shot and killed husband Doug Benefield, 58, in self-defense at her Florida home on Sept. 27, ...

Ashley Benefield showed no apparent emotion as a Manatee County Circuit Court judge sentenced her to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of her estranged husband Doug Benefield in her ...

Ashley Benefield showed no apparent emotion during Tuesday's sentencing. While Whyte announced his ruling, a comforting hand wrapped around Eva Benefield, Doug's oldest daughter from a previous ...

2:33 ‘Black Swan murder trial’: Former ballerina Ashley Benefield ... of juror misconduct. Benefield contended that she killed her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, 58, in self-defence ...

Taylor claimed his client acted in self-defense when she fatally shot her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, 58, following a tumultuous and abusive relationship that lasted four years. The shooting ...

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 ...

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.

Ashley Benefield, 33 ... convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 fatal shooting of her 58-year-old husband Doug Benefield. “I’ve waited so long to speak to her, face to face,” Doug’s ...

A former ballerina, Ashley Benefield, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for the shooting death of her estranged husband, Doug Benefield, in 2020. The sentencing followed a jury’s ...

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.

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield ... with some comparing Benefield to the protagonist of the 2010 film Black Swan. Benefield shot her estranged husband, Doug, in 2020 during an argument in ...