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Bent Gayle received her Ph. Raymond Dee Gayle, age 90, of Commiskey, Indiana entered this life on Augt 24, 1930 Wtport, Kentucky.

He was the lovg son of the late June and Fanny Dee Taylor Gayle. A LOVING FAMILY Dee will be missed by his lovg dghters, Deanna Kdred of North Vernon, Indiana, Melissa Johnson and her hband Tom of Monroe Cy, Indiana, Colleen Black and her hband, Greg of Palmyra, Indiana, Liz Heilman and her hband Steve of Commiskey, Indiana; his lovg son, Raymond Gayle, Jr.

Of Commiskey, Indiana; his sister, Vlet Fewell of Lanster, Indiana; his grandchildren, Chris, Michael, Tammy, Amanda, Brooke, Tyler, Dana, Zach, Hannah, Eri, Olivia, Kassie and Kristian; 22-great grandchildren, and one great great granddghter; his sisters laws: Evelyn Barrickman of Sligo, Kentucky, Dolor Gayle of Midway, Indiana, Lillie Wgham of Brooksburg, Indiana; his brothers laws, Donnie Mikell of Madison, Indiana, Gerald "Buddy" Mikell and his wife, Clara of Commiskey, Indiana; several niec, nephews and other relativ; his sister laws.

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He was preced ath by his father, June Gayle, his mother, Fanny Dee Taylor Gayle, his beloved wife of 66 years, Lora Olive Mikell Gayle, died April 15, 2020, his son law, Stan Kdred, died January 2, 2020, his grandson, Dt Combs, died June 21, 1984, his great granddghter, Kennedy Combs, died November 2018, his brothers, Tripp Barrickman, Tom Gayle, Jake Gayle, Warren "Short" Gayle, his sisters, Ple Beard and Elizabeth Hammers, his brothers law, Tommy Wgham, Garrett Cable, Richard Fewell, and his sisters law, Rose Mikell and Joy Cable. Log InSign UpDee Gayle Larson(Deiatra Gayle Larson).

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Dolor "Dee" Gayle Fogarty of Unadilla passed away on September 29, 2018. 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.

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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.

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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.

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

“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.

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Football<span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h1><style data-emotn="css 107ey2i">{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.375rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.3125rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#9a0500;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-107ey2i exadjwu8"><p>New Orleans Sats owner Gayle Benson is one of the NFL’s most fluential women, but ’s her mov off the field that make her a power player.</p></div><style data-emotn="css 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7v2ck1">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:3.8431rem;font-weight:normal;le-height:1;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:6.25rem;le-height:1;}} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="body-dropp css-7v2ck1 et3p2gv0">Friday lunch at Galatoire’s are almost as legendary as the rtrant self. Found 1905, the French Quarter stalwart is a hive for the social and bs be mon of New Orleans, and, while no one is exactly sure why, midday Friday has always been the zenh for seeg and beg seen. This sunny Friday is no different, as the cy’s gentry stabs at leafy salads and chicken Clemence, and giggly butant toast one another wh flut of pétillant pk champagne. 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 below.</p><style data-emotn="css aeyldl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That there is somethg regal about Gayle Benson is obv the moment you meet her. It’s the serene gaze, the breathy Jacquele Kennedy voice, the refed manner. She is the owner of the cy’s two premier sports anchis (the NFL’s Sats and the NBA’s Pelins), and as she walks down the hall to the dg room, waers and bboys step asi. It’s like the scene <em>My Fair Lady</em> when the queen of Transylvania enters the Embassy Ball and everyone bows and curtsi as she pass. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="2" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css 118z4a">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:0 to 1.875rem;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-118z4a eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css q6i00s">{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.8125rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-q6i00s e1pe3zr90"> She was a girl om the wrong si of the bayou who fied society’s expectatns.</blockquote><style data-emotn="css 1fv5ixs">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:1.875rem to 0;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1fv5ixs eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Like most royals, Benson is circumspect and impecbly pole. Also like most royals, she has been burned by nuendo, tsive prs fascatn, and heapg dollops of whispered gossip. When you are the third wife of your state’s richt man, and then you have to fend off his scendants for ntrol of his fortune, ’s reasonable to assume that people are gog to pay attentn. 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 pearls.</p><style data-emotn="css 1mtk2uq">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="4" class="align-right size-large embed css-1mtk2uq e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="NFL Divisnal Playoffs - Arizona Cardals v New Orleans Sats" tle="NFL Divisnal Playoffs - Arizona Cardals v New Orleans Sats" loadg="lazy" width="3888" height="2592" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css 78jldq">{paddg-left:0rem;}</style><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css qtcc4k">{lor:#030929;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;width:0;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.6;}} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} i, em{font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;}</style><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Tom and Gayle Benson celebrate after the New Orleans Sats beat the Arizona Cardals durg the NFC Divisnal Playoff Game 2010.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Chris Graythen</span><style data-emotn="css 117g3a1">{lor:#595959;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;paddg:0 0.3rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-right:0.3125rem;}}</style><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Talkg 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.” Her sire has been fulfilled. Her holdgs clu a grand mansn, a 600-acre horse farm Lexgton, Kentucky (she has raced two hors the Derby), a home Palm Beach, and a 145-foot yacht. (She also has one of the ft jewelry llectns New Or­leans. “Osr Heyman, Tiffany, Van Cleef—the nice on,” she offers murely.)</p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Now, jt for kicks, she’s relnchg Dixie Beer, which was first brewed New Orleans 1907 and which ceased productn 2005. As the widow and prcipal heir of Tom Benson, the r alership and bankg tyon who owned the Sats and the Pelins and who died March 2018, she is now one of the wealthit women the world, wh an timated worth of $3.1 billn—and the only Louisianan on the Forb 400. <br /></p><p data-no-id="7" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Gayle Benson’s journey to beg the Crcent Cy’s figurative first lady is a distctly Southern tale of termatn, opportuny, and unlikely romance. She was a girl om the wrong si of the bayou who fied society’s expectatns of what a young lady uld and should aspire to. She charmed the most obstate mogul New Orleans and then endured tabloid stori implyg that she was a gold digger who had welshed on her own past bts. Today she is a 72-year-old sociale who is makg her prence known the ­ttosterone-fueled world of profsnal sports. <br /></p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“Durg the last year of his life, Mr. Benson would say, ‘I’m not gog to live much longer. Promise me you’re gog to take re of Mrs. Benson,’ ” Sats print Dennis Lscha rells. “But she’s her own woman. We take strength om her.”<br /></p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="9" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Automotive sign, Vehicle, Automotive exterr, Footwear, Photography, Tire, Car, Room, Automotive wheel system, Bumper, " tle="Automotive sign, Vehicle, Automotive exterr, Footwear, Photography, Tire, Car, Room, Automotive wheel system, Bumper, " loadg="lazy" width="1883" height="1256" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Benson, seen here wh place kicker Wil Lutz, has been the owner of the New Orleans Sats sce March 2018.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Andrew Hethergton</span></figptn></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="10" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="11" class="body-dropp css-7v2ck1 et3p2gv0">Gayle 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 <em>Tim-­Piyune</em>. The street is a picturque table of stately ho wh wi porch and whe lumns, manicured lawns, and wdow box overflowg wh hydrangeas and ros.<br /></p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Perched on a French provcial chair her stg room, Benson wears a black crepe top and flowg pants om Chanel paired wh a fted whe blazer om Alexanr McQueen and…post-­surgery sho. 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 to.<br /></p><div data-embed="embed-gallery" data-no-id="13" class="embed css-0 ebzsujn10"><style data-emotn="css d4q6s5">{font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-align:center;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{marg:1.25rem 0 0.9375rem;font-size:1.9375rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:1.875rem 0 1.25rem;font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}</style><h5 class="css-d4q6s5 ebzsujn6"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span>The NFL's Female Boss<span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h5><style data-emotn="css 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ebzsujn9"><div class="css-1i7xyfd ebzsujn5"><div class="css-njwezd ebzsujn4"><img src="" alt="Sports gear, Helmet, Football helmet, Football gear, Football equipment, Personal protective equipment, Football tographed paraphernalia, Face mask, Headgear, Sports llectible, " tle="Sports gear, Helmet, Football helmet, Football gear, Football equipment, Personal protective equipment, Football tographed paraphernalia, Face mask, Headgear, Sports llectible, " width="700" height="700" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /><h6 class="css-id9gvh ebzsujn1">Jody Allen</h6><div class="css-dppas4 ebzsujn0"><p class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Seattle Seahawks</p></div></div></div></div><div class="css-dkcszz ebzsujn9"><div class="css-1i7xyfd ebzsujn5"><div class="css-njwezd ebzsujn4"><img src="" alt="Helmet, Sports gear, Football helmet, Personal protective equipment, Orange, Football gear, Football equipment, Headgear, Sports equipment, Face mask, " tle="Helmet, Sports gear, Football helmet, Personal protective equipment, Orange, Football gear, Football equipment, Headgear, Sports equipment, Face mask, " width="700" height="700" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /><h6 class="css-id9gvh ebzsujn1">Dee Haslam</h6><div class="css-dppas4 ebzsujn0"><p class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Cleveland Browns</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">She 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. She worked as a secretary, and at the age of 27 began buyg and flippg ho, long before many people were dog . From there she moved on to openg a sign bs. “I was always entreprenrial,” she says, “even gra school.”</p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> It’s not an exaggeratn to say that God brought her to Tom Benson. In 2004, the notorly gmpy 77-year-old tyon was at home, puffg and blowg on an exercise bicycle and ­watchg the morng Catholic Mass on televisn; she was servg as a lector at the service, and he saw her on TV. The next day the widower cid to travel to the church himself for a closer look. He liked what he saw. She didn’t. “He looks at me and go, ‘Who’s this young lady?’ He puts his hand out and I put my hand out,” Gayle rells. “I looked to his big blue ey and I said to myself, ‘Buddy, I’m not terted you.’ He looked like trouble to me.”</p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He was. Wh a foul temper and ntrollg meanor, Tom Benson was notor for beg a sore loser and “a gdge holr. If you did somethg wrong, he remembered forever,” Gayle says. Already twice divorced, she was not terted romance. She also found his boastg—about his wealth, his posssns, his bs acumen—off-puttg. “The more he talked, the ls imprsed I was,” she says. “I’m thkg, This guy is too shallow for me.”<br /></p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="17" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-118z4a eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-q6i00s e1pe3zr90">She mak her players feel special, whether ’s leavg signed mail clippgs on our lockers or teractg wh our fai at practice.</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1fv5ixs eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="18" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But she had dner wh him, which led to another, and then another. Dpe herself, Gayle found herself disarmed and fallg for his sense of humor and urtly manners. “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.”<br /></p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Tom Benson hardly unrwent a Scrooge-style transformatn (once, durg a dner party, he got so bored he abptly end the eveng by standg up and clarg that was time for everyone to leave), but there was, those who knew him say, a softeng to his prickly meanor. “He was high for the ws and low durg the loss,” says Mickey Loomis, the Sats’ general manager for almost 20 years. “She’s ls emotnal, more even-keeled. He admired that.”</p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="20" class="align-right size-large embed css-1mtk2uq e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Wild Card Round - Mnota Vikgs v New Orleans Sats" tle="Wild Card Round - Mnota Vikgs v New Orleans Sats" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="683" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">The Sats’ Vonn Bell durg the NFC Wild Card Playoff game agast the Mnota Vikgs.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Sean Gardner</span><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="21" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">When 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. “When I said that at the rehearsal dner, was really targeted toward—certaly to Tom, but to his fay, too,” Hill says. “I hoped that they would embrace her. It didn’t work out, and ankly ’s their loss.”</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">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. (Tom was not implited.) </p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">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. 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.” The tabloids feasted. Tom died March 2018, at age 90, om fluenza. </p><style data-emotn="css gv3b6u">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:70%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:70%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="24" class="align-left size-large embed css-gv3b6u e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="New Orleans Sats v Carola Panthers" tle="New Orleans Sats v Carola Panthers" loadg="lazy" width="4291" height="2860" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Sats wi receiver Michael Thomas set a NFL rerd for most receptns a sgle season. </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Jab Kupferman</span><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">“It’s hurtful, but you need to move on,” Gayle says today. “I try not to get angry, or stay angry.” (Attorneys for the LeBlanc fay did not rpond to requts for ment for this story.) </p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The lawsu wasn’t the first time the fay had ma wav. 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.”</p><p data-no-id="27" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">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. “She had so much support publicly,” says Mike Triplett, a journalist who has vered the Sats sce 2005. “The team was so vol sidg wh her, and how she was the one they wanted to be the owner and how Tom was groomg her to be the owner. I thk the fan base had gaed nfince her.” </p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">So had the players. “She is one of the kst people I’ve known,” says Sats quarterback Drew Bre. Gayle is godmother to one of his children. “She mak her players feel special, whether ’s leavg signed mail clippgs on our lockers or teractg wh our fai at practice. My wife and kids adore her.” </p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Chatter on the cy’s social circu is more mixed. “Gayle has rema herself to Lady Bountiful, and she sure as sh has a lot of power,” says one society fixture. “But no one the whole scenar looks good.”</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After years of ugly ligatn—which reportedly clud a secret rerdg ma by Ra to prove that her grandfather was losg his md and an explosive posn which Tom Benson shouted, “Lyg bastard!” at Ted Bloch, a psychiatrist the LeBlancs hired to affirm his senily—the urt award Gayle ownership of the fay’s sports anchis. Today she is one of a small group of women who oversee an NFL anchise, a sorory that clus 94-year-old Martha Firtone Ford of the Detro Lns; Kim Pegula, 50, who -owns the Buffalo Bills wh her hband; and 60-year-old Jody Allen, who is chair of the Seattle Seahawks, which is owned by a tst the name of her late brother, Micro­soft -founr Pl Allen. </p><hr data-no-id="31" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="32" class="body-dropp css-7v2ck1 et3p2gv0">There are fewer gathergs more myster than the seasonal meetgs of the NFL owners, but if you image an old girls’ work huddled a rner, you’ll be disappoted. For her part Benson keeps unsel wh, and tsts, the same men her hband did: the on who still n the Sats. </p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">By her own admissn she don’t often hold urt at the meetgs (“I will wre letters if I feel I need to”), but she mak sure that she is heard. When San Francis 49ers quarter­back Col Kaepernick set off a firtorm by kneelg durg the natnal anthem durg gam, and other players followed su, Gayle—­reprentg an ailg Tom 2016—rnered NFL missner Roger Gooll. “We were gettg ready to start the meetg,” she rells. “I said, ‘Roger, you need to tell the owners that their players will not kneel. That’s all you have to do.’ ” </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="34" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="NFL: AUG 24 Preason - Sats at Jets" tle="NFL: AUG 24 Preason - Sats at Jets" loadg="lazy" width="3656" height="2437" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Benson at a preason game agast the Giants last Augt. </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">In Sportswire</span><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="35" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He didn’t. The kneelg ntroversy has quieted down; Kaepernick beme somethg of a social jtice folk hero, though he remas unsigned by any NFL team. But makg her voice heard, then and sce, Gayle Benson has tablished a prence ( the NBA as well) that is far more steel magnolia than shrkg vlet. 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