Case update: On Dec. 3, 2024, Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of probation. After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ...

The stormy relationship between Doug and Ashley Benefield, the star-crossed couple at the heart of the notorious "Black Swan" murder case, began and ended with a .45 caliber gun, according to what ...

The sentencing came about four months after a six-person jury found Ashley Benefield, 32, guilty of manslaughter. Benefield was initially charged with second-degree murder but jurors chose the ...

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, 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 ...

Ashley Benefield, 32, is charged with second-degree murder with a firearm. She was arrested a little more than a month after the shooting in November 2020. Ashley Benefield claims she fired the ...

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 faces decades behind bars after being convicted of manslaughter in her husband's 2020 shooting death, which she claimed was self-defense Ashley Benefield’s “Black Swan Murder ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield is on trial this week in the death of her estranged husband in a case local media has dubbed the “Black Swan murder trial.” Her attorneys say she acted in ...

Hitching breaths and high-pitched sobs rang out in the courtroom Friday as Ashley Benefield recalled the evening she shot and killed her estranged husband, Doug Benefield. "I thought he was going ...

Former ballet dancer Ashley Benefield killed her husband in 2020 and maintains she acted in self defense Former ballerina Ashley Benefield earned the "Black Swan" moniker after fatally shooting ...