Ashley Benefield was born Ashley Byers and grew up in Maryland. She started studying dance when she was 8 years old, even dropping out of high school to work with the Maryland Youth Ballet. However, ...

A former ballerina was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband in Florida. CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 ...

A former ballet dancer and swimwear model ... “You have managed to orphan not one, but two young girls,” Eva told Benefield. “Ashley, since the day you shot my father, I’ve only had ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Ashley Benefield, the center of the “Black Swan” trial, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation after she was found guilty of ...

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 ...

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 Benefields were co-founders of the American National Ballet and Ashley Benefield is a former dancer. She had been charged with second-degree murder, but the jurors opted for a lesser ...

The headline in a recent edition of the Sarasota Herald- Tribune – "Former Lakewood Ranch ballerina to serve 20 years" – ironically trumpeted an identical sentence for a teenager who was convicted ...