Ashley Benefield (née Byers), [4] a former ballerina was accused of the shooting mariticide [5] of her estranged husband 58-year-old Douglas "Doug" Benefield. [6] The murder trial is known by this name due to the defendant's former profession and in reference of 2010 film Black Swan. [1] The murder and subsequent trial received national media ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Former professional ballerina Ashley Benefield appeared in court Thursday for a bond hearing. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband, Doug Benefield. She's asking to be let out of prison while she appeals the conviction. BRADENTON ...

Dec 3, 2024 · Ashley Benefield, 32, claimed that she killed her then-58-year-old estranged husband in self defense during an argument at her mother's home, where she had moved from...

Dec 4, 2024 · Ashley Benefield, 33, remained stony-faced as her fate was read aloud in a Florida court Monday, five months after she was convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 fatal shooting of her...

Dec 3, 2024 · Benefield, 33, was convicted of manslaughter in July for a killing that she said was self-defense. Florida prosecutors had charged her with murder. Ashley Benefield at the Manatee County...

Nov 16, 2024 · Ashley Benefield was charged with murder, but a jury found her not guilty, instead convicting her on the lesser charge of manslaughter. She faces up to 30 years in prison.

Dec 3, 2024 · Ashley Benefield, a former Florida ballerina, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison following her manslaughter conviction for fatally shooting her estranged husband in 2020.

Dec 3, 2024 · Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday, following the "Black Swan murder trial" over the fatal shooting of her husband.

Jul 31, 2024 · Ex-ballerina Ashley Benefield was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in a Florida county court, ending the "Black Swan murder trial." The six-person jury, made up of five women and...

Jul 31, 2024 · Ashley Benefield, 33, had been charged with second-degree murder, but the panel convicted her of the lesser crime in the killing of Doug Benefield on Sept. 27, 2020.