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Contents:

• GAYLE BENSON
• GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARABLE FOUNDATN
• SATLY SUCCSN: GAYLE BENSON’S PLAN TO GIVE BACK TO THE MUNY, KEEP SATS NEW ORLEANS
• GAYLE BENSON’S TATE PLAN LLS FOR SATS TO BE SOLD, WH PROCEEDS GIVEN TO CHARY
• HOW GAYLE BENSON BEME THE FIRST LADY OF FOOTBALL
• BREAKG DOWN GAYLE BENSON’S PLAN TO KEEP NEW ORLEANS SATS, PELINS LOL
• GAYLE BENSON OUTL FUTURE SUCCSN PLAN TO KEEP SATS, PELINS NEW ORLEANS
• GAYLE BENSON HER WORDS: FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS TO THE URTSHIP BY FORMER SATS, PELINS OWNER TOM BENSON
• THE GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CANCER CENTER CELEBRAT EXPANSN WH GRAND RE-OPENG
• WHO IS TOM BENSON? GAYLE BENSON'S HBAND, FAY AND CHILDREN
• HERE'S ANOTHER TOUR OF TOM AND GAYLE BENSON'S HOME

GAYLE BENSON

Gayle Benson hered ntrol of New Orleans’s NFL and NBA teams when her hband and the multibilln-dollar anizatns’ owner, Tom Benson, died five years ago. Until Thursday they had the optn of filg a lawsu challengg the validy of the will that cut them out of his succsn plans and stalled Gayle as the heror of the sports adle passed whout Tom Benson’s dghter Renee or her children Ra and Ryan LeBlanc apparently havg takg any such actn, however.

The time lim’s lapse would mean Gayle Benson has officially nsolidated her ownership of the teams, which she has promised will be sold only after her ath on the ndn that they rema New Orleans.

Meanwhile, a Sats and Pelins spokperson, Greg Bensel, didn’t immediately rpond to a requt for ment, though the teams have prevly said that they believed the plan which left Gayle Benson ntrol of the teams was her part, reports published 2021 by the New Orleans news outlets and WVUE-TV, the 76-year-old Benson had outled her tent to lnch a foundatn that would donate the proceeds of the teams’ eventual sale to charable south-east Louisiana and the surroundg regn. A heated, plex legal battle that pted the twice-widowed Tom Benson and Gayle – his wife of nearly 14 years – agast the relativ llectively nicknamed the 3Rs epted 2015 and generated years of Tom Benson rmed them that he was abandong a prr plan to stead leave ntrol of his teams and other lucrative bs properti to Gayle rather than the 3Rs, the latter party filed a lawsu allegg the fay patriarch was mentally unf to make such a was nearg the end of his 90-year life, and they argued that he was creasgly enfeebled and had been manipulated by terlopers to cuttg them ’s mp untered that he had good reason to cut out the 3Rs – who had worked for him – om his succsn.

GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARABLE FOUNDATN

After firg them, he publicly alleged that his dghter and grandchildren mistreated Gayle after she married to the fay proceedgs that played out almost entirely secret, New Orleans state urt judge Kern Ree led that Tom Benson had some gnive illns mon for those of his age but was petent to make cisns about his succsn plans. Two higher urts left the lg immediately after Ree’s lg, Benson drafted a will and ttament that appoted Gayle as his sole succsor. They argued that he would not have done so if his legal team were nfint he would have e off as lucid his Sats – who recently beat out other teams to sign the ee-agent quarterback Derek Carr – ma trips to the playoffs their first three seasons wh Gayle Benson as owner but have missed out on the postseason the two mpaigns sce the longtime signal-ller Drew Bre January 2019, refere’ failure to ll an obv pass terference late the NFL nference champnship game almost certaly st the Sats a trip to the Super Pelins, meanwhile, drafted superstar Zn Williamson ls than a year after Gayle Benson beme their owner, but he has stggled to stay healthy and the team has only been to the playoffs once.

SATLY SUCCSN: GAYLE BENSON’S PLAN TO GIVE BACK TO THE MUNY, KEEP SATS NEW ORLEANS

About Gayle BensonGayle Benson is the widow of Tom Benson (d.

Gayle and Tom Benson Charable Foundatn. Established 2007 TX - Found by Gayle and Tom Benson.

The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center, loted New Orleans, expand 2020 addg 115,000 square-feet creasg Ochsner's pacy to offer high-qualy ncer servic and advanced clil rearch.

GAYLE BENSON’S TATE PLAN LLS FOR SATS TO BE SOLD, WH PROCEEDS GIVEN TO CHARY

Key featur of The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center.

The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center addrs an important foc of the Ochsner multidisciplary team approach: the social, physil and emotnal impacts of ncer treatment. The Lielotte Tansey Breast Center is loted si The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center to further tegrate the multidisciplary treatment approach. The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center also has a hematology onlogy clic, a chemotherapy fn clic, an area for radiatn onlogy and a prostate center.

HOW GAYLE BENSON BEME THE FIRST LADY OF FOOTBALL

2023: The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medil Center – New Orleans earned reaccredatn om the Amerin Society of Clil Onlogy's Qualy Onlogy Practice Iniative (QOPI). This ASCO reaccredatn illtrat the livery of the bt, most prehensive re to patients.2023: The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medil Center – New Orleans earned reaccredatn om the Amerin College of Radlogy's (ACR) Radiatn Onlogy Practice Accredatn. Gayle Benson, owner of both the New Orleans Sats and Pelins, said an exclive terview the teams are not gog has owned the teams sce 2018 when her hband and longtime Sats owner, Tom, died.

So my wish, and Dennis is the executor of my tate, my wish is to stter all the goods and gifts that God has given me, and that Tom has given me to this cy and muny, ” Benson Sats and Pelins owner said that while she hop she has many years left, her succsn plan clus sellg both teams, wh Lscha charge of the sale of the team and givg back to the muny through the Gayle and Tom Benson Foundatn. ”The Natnal Football League has endorsed the succsn plan that will likely make the Gayle and Tom Benson Charable Foundatn the largt philanthropic anizatn Louisiana. “I n’t take wh me, ” Gayle Benson told the Tim-Piyune.

BREAKG DOWN GAYLE BENSON’S PLAN TO KEEP NEW ORLEANS SATS, PELINS LOL

”Gayle Benson hered the team after Tom Benson died executiv are reportedly workg to ensure that the buyer, whoever may be, will keep the team New Orleans. Upstairs, amid the mtard curtas and hunter-green wallpaper, the cy’s great lady walks toward her regular table the rner, the one overlookg the honky-tonk of Bourbon Street there is somethg regal about Gayle Benson is obv the moment you meet her.

But like all great women of style, the Chanel-swathed former terr signer—who today may be the most powerful woman profsnal sports—retas a cloud of mystery she wears as fortably as her and Gayle Benson celebrate after the New Orleans Sats beat the Arizona Cardals durg the NFC Divisnal Playoff Game Graythen//Getty ImagTalkg about her childhood “across the river” Old Algiers, a poor neighborhood, she says that om an early age “I had this eye—this sire—for betiful thgs.

GAYLE BENSON OUTL FUTURE SUCCSN PLAN TO KEEP SATS, PELINS NEW ORLEANS

Gayle Benson’s journey to beg the Crcent Cy’s figurative first lady is a distctly Southern tale of termatn, opportuny, and unlikely romance. ”Benson, seen here wh place kicker Wil Lutz, has been the owner of the New Orleans Sats sce March HethergtonGayle Benson’s mansn ss on a private road Audubon Place, the tonit neighborhood New Orleans, where her neighbors clu Avram Glazer, the -owner of both the Tampa Bay Bucneers and England’s Manchter Uned soccer club, and John Ge, the owner of the Tim-Piyune.

She has had trouble wh both feet, and she had them operated on simultaneoly, bee Gayle Benson always wants anythg unpleasant dispatched wh as quickly as possible, down to her NFL's Female BossKim PegulaBuffalo BillsDenise Debartolo YorkSan Francis 49ersVirgia Halas McCaskeyChigo BearsCarol DavisOakland RairsMartha Firtone FordDetro LnsAmy Adams StnkTennse TansJody AllenSeattle SeahawksDee HaslamCleveland BrownsShe grew up on the wt bank of the Mississippi River, one of three children of a supervisor at a pipe-ftg pany and a homemaker.

’ He puts his hand out and I put my hand out, ” Gayle rells. If you did somethg wrong, he remembered forever, ” Gayle says.

GAYLE BENSON HER WORDS: FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS TO THE URTSHIP BY FORMER SATS, PELINS OWNER TOM BENSON

Dpe herself, Gayle found herself disarmed and fallg for his sense of humor and urtly manners.

THE GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CANCER CENTER CELEBRAT EXPANSN WH GRAND RE-OPENG

“Gayle was able to brg out the bt him, ” says New Orleans archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond, who watched the uple’s romance blossom om the begng, “and help him velop that more gentle si.

”The Sats’ Vonn Bell durg the NFC Wild Card Playoff game agast the Mnota Gardner//Getty ImagWhen the uple got engaged 2004, Gayle’s iends worried that Tom’s dghter and grandchildren om his first marriage might not accept his new wife.

Angela Hill, a lol televisn anchor who beiend Gayle the mid-1970s, ma a pot of publicly toastg not what Tom was brgg to the unn but what Gayle was: tst, loyalty, iendship, unndnal love. ”Tom’s dghter Renee Benson LeBlanc, granddghter Ra, and grandson Ryan had all been eply volved the fay bs, but was Gayle who helped Tom get through the aftermath of Hurrine Katra and “Bountygate, ” a 2012 sndal on the Sats that volved secret bon beg paid by ach for juri flicted on opposg players. ) LeBlanc and her children acced Gayle of turng him agast them, so when Tom announced January 2015, at the age of 87, that he was disherg them and leavg his entire tate to Gayle, they filed su to have him clared petent.

WHO IS TOM BENSON? GAYLE BENSON'S HBAND, FAY AND CHILDREN

In the procs they dug up embarrassg tails om Gayle’s past, cludg an alleged arrt and lawsus stemmg om accatns that she hadn’t paid var wag or tax durg her time as an terr signer. Among other transgrsns, the su alleged that Gayle had “systemilly isolated Tom Benson to prevent him om his ual teractns wh fay, iends, and advisers, thereby allowg her to unduly fluence his cisns to her benef. Jab Kupferman//Getty Imag“It’s hurtful, but you need to move on, ” Gayle says today.

Observers say that while New Orleans society eventually warmed to Gayle, the fay’s fightg was never a secret. Tom’s dghter and grandchildren acced Gayle of cuttg off accs to the patriarch to ga power; a posn Tom ttified that they had physilly asslted Gayle a luxury sue at a Sats game and had “tried to kill me.

HERE'S ANOTHER TOUR OF TOM AND GAYLE BENSON'S HOME

”If Renee Benson and her children thought they uld turn the ti of public opn by playg the wicked stepmother rd, they misjudged the mood of the cy, which rallied behd Gayle.