‘Black Swan murder’ ballerina Ashley Benefield stone-faced as she’s sentenced to 20 years in prison over killing of husband: ‘Hope prison serves her well’

By Alex Oliveira

 

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, 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 58-year-old husband Doug Benefield.

“I’ve waited so long to speak to her, face to face,” Doug’s daughter Eva said during her victim-impact statement. “I hope prison serves her well.”

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Benefield faced up to 30 years behind bars for the killing her attorneys argued was carried out in self-defense.

While Judge Mathew Whyte conceded she may have acted under duress, he said he couldn’t reduce her sentence, NBC News reported…

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