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• GAYLE BENSON OUTL FUTURE SUCCSN PLAN TO KEEP SATS, PELINS NEW ORLEANS
• 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
• REPORTS OUTLE GAYLE BENSON'S SATS OWNERSHIP SUCCSN PLAN
• HOW GAYLE BENSON BEME THE FIRST LADY OF FOOTBALL
• GAYLE BENSON
• SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON TO BE FEATURED ON NFL NETWORK
• BREAKG DOWN GAYLE BENSON’S PLAN TO KEEP NEW ORLEANS SATS, PELINS LOL
• NEW ORLEANS SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S FUTURE: 'I DON'T THK ANY OF KNOW, BUT HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'
• GAYLE BENSON IS THE SOLE HEIR TO LATE HBAND TOM'S BS EMPIRE
• GAYLE BENSON JOS EXCLIVE CLUB AS OWNER OF NFL'S SATS, NBA'S PELINS
• GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S STAT FOR 2022: 'HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'
• GAYLE BENSON: SATS DID NOTHG WRONG HELPG ARCHDCE OF NEW ORLEANS
• NEW ORLEANS SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S FUTURE: 'I DON'T THK ANY OF KNOW, BUT HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'
• SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON TO BE FEATURED ON NFL NETWORK
• GAYLE BENSON ISSU STATEMENT AMID SATS' VOLVEMENT CATHOLIC ABE LAWSU
• WHO ARE GAYLE BENSON’S CHILDREN AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

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

-- New Orleans Sats and Pelins owner Gayle Benson and team officials revealed the teams' long-term succsn plans tail for the first time on Wednday, tellg The Tim-Piyune and WVUE-TV that they would be sold wh the goal of keepg the teams New Orleans and distributg the proceeds to arrangement, which has been approved by the NFL, is siar to what happened after Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson died 2014 and the team was later sold to Terry and Kim, 74, and Sats print Dennis Lscha, who would serve as the executor of her tate, said the proceeds would be distributed to chari that benef the people of New Orleans, cludg the fields of tn, health re, arts and scienc and humanarian . The issue of long-term succsn has been a cursy ever sce Tom revealed 2015 that he wanted to leave his anchis to Gayle, whom he married 2004, stead of his dghter and grandchildren. 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. ”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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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’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.

REPORTS OUTLE GAYLE BENSON'S SATS OWNERSHIP SUCCSN PLAN

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.

HOW GAYLE BENSON BEME THE FIRST LADY OF FOOTBALL

’ 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

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. ) 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.

SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON TO BE FEATURED ON NFL NETWORK

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.

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

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.

NEW ORLEANS SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S FUTURE: 'I DON'T THK ANY OF KNOW, BUT HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'

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. ”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.

GAYLE BENSON IS THE SOLE HEIR TO LATE HBAND TOM'S BS EMPIRE

Gayle is godmother to one of his children. “Gayle has rema herself to Lady Bountiful, and she sure as sh has a lot of power, ” says one society fixture.

GAYLE BENSON JOS EXCLIVE CLUB AS OWNER OF NFL'S SATS, NBA'S PELINS

” at Ted Bloch, a psychiatrist the LeBlancs hired to affirm his senily—the urt award Gayle ownership of the fay’s sports anchis. 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. 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.

About Gayle BensonGayle Benson is the widow of Tom Benson (d. New Orleans Sats and Pelins owner Gayle Benson is set to be featured on NFL Network’s upg episo of NFL 360: Women Sports. [+] Superbowl XLIV w and his wife Gayle ri the 2010 Krewe Of Endymn Mardi Gras para on Febary 13, 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana.

GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S STAT FOR 2022: 'HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'

Gayle Benson’s gifts of unselfish givg and diligently planng ahead will benef the New Orleans area for s to e. Gayle Benson admted both teams have gotten unsoliced offers. Tom left the teams to Gayle as she will leave them to the cy.

GAYLE BENSON: SATS DID NOTHG WRONG HELPG ARCHDCE OF NEW ORLEANS

As far as Gayle Benson, well, Payton believ she “is gog to outlive all of .

-- New Orleans Sats owner Gayle Benson acknowledged Monday that ach Sean Payton's stat remas uncerta for the 2022 season when she told lol reporters, "I don't thk any of know, but he'll let know soon enough.

Gayle Benson Is the Sole Heir to Late Hband Tom's Bs Empire Gayle Benson hered ownership of the Sats and Pelins 2018. ETSource: GettyGayle Benson has taken over learship of the New Orleans Sats anchise sce the passg of her hband, Tom, 2018.

NEW ORLEANS SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON ON SEAN PAYTON'S FUTURE: 'I DON'T THK ANY OF KNOW, BUT HE'LL LET KNOW SOON ENOUGH'

Court rerds showed that his widow Gayle was the sole beneficiary of the tate.

Sports Illtrated reported 2016 that Benson claimed to have wnsed a 2014 nontatn between his wife Gayle and dghter Renee that turned physilly vlent. Article ntu below advertisementArticle ntu below advertisementIn January 2015, Benson fired his dghter and grandchildren om their executive posns wh the teams he owned and announced that Gayle would be the sole heir.

Exactly how he reworked the tst isn't public GettyArticle ntu below advertisementArticle ntu below advertisementAs the owner of the Sats and Pelins and several other valuable properti and bs, Gayle has an timated worth today of $3. Gayle Benson's hurrine donatnOn Aug. 30, Gayle announced that she would donate $1 ln to the Gulf Coast Renewal Fund.

SATS OWNER GAYLE BENSON TO BE FEATURED ON NFL NETWORK

Gayle Benson was much younger than her hband and had no children of her own. -- Gayle Benson has admted over the years that she really wasn't much of a football fan before she met her hband, Tom, 2004 and that he took her to an Arena Football League game on their first that should hardly disqualify the 71-year-old New Orleans native as the newt owner of both the NFL's New Orleans Sats and NBA's New Orleans Pelins now that Tom Benson has passed away at the age of 90.

She jos Pl Allen and Kroenke Sports & Entertament as the only owners of anchis both fact, unlike other bsmen and women who have dove headfirst to the sports world after purchasg major anchis, Gayle Benson has sentially been groomed for this posn many ways throughout their 13-year marriage -- pecially recent years while she has joed her hband at league meetgs to specifilly prepare her for this Benson ma the cisn 2015 to ot his dghter and grandchildren as heirs to his two sports anchis and replace them wh Gayle, his third wife. And one of the primary reasons he endured that bter legal fd was bee he wanted to ensure the long-term secury and stabily of the teams, which he was nfint that Gayle would uld argue -- as those spurned heirs did urt -- that Gayle has an unproven track rerd the bs world, spent mostly as an terr signer before she married Tom was nfint that not only was Gayle prepared for the role, but she would ntue to lean heavily on his two most tsted litenants -- Dennis Lscha and Mickey Loomis -- among several others the anizatn. "I would like to assure you that we planned refully for this day and, while my hband uld never be replaced, I am blsed to be surround by a wonrful learship team and staff and we will move forward succsfully together, " Gayle add the msage.

They'll be fe, " Mara close to the Bensons have also wily creded Gayle for helpg to improve her hband's public image over the past -pl, cludg some remarkable exampl of philanthropy and chary, shrewd marketg cisns like the Merces-Benz Superdome namg rights and many vtments lol New Orleans bs. Sce then, the Sats and Benson arguably beme more popular than now jos Stnk, the Chigo Bears' Virgia Halas McCaskey and the Detro Lns' Martha Ford as the only four women who serve as ntrollg owners of NFL anchis -- though Kim Pegula is a -owner of the Buffalo Bills and Carol Davis is a -owner of the Oakland is also one of four women listed as primary owners of NBA anchis, jog the Los Angel Lakers' Jeanie Bs, the Denver Nuggets' Ann Walton Kroenke and the Utah Jazz's Gail grew up as Gayle Marie LaJnie the Old Algiers sectn of New Orleans and graduated om Mart Behrman High School.

GAYLE BENSON ISSU STATEMENT AMID SATS' VOLVEMENT CATHOLIC ABE LAWSU

Louis Cathedral, and Gayle has told the story past terviews that after he asked her out, she mostly agreed hop of gettg a donatn for the church.

WHO ARE GAYLE BENSON’S CHILDREN AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

Unfortunately, the relatnship between Gayle and Tom's dghter Renee Benson and grandchildren Ra LeBlanc and Ryan LeBlanc grew ntent and nontatnal over the years, leadg to Tom's cisn to cut them out of his life and his sports anchis December 2014.

They rpond wh an unsuccsful lawsu that sought to have Tom clared mentally unf to n his bs, claimg that he was beg manipulated by Gayle and others the spurned heirs also attacked Gayle's bs crentials that lawsu. The New Orleans Advote unearthed roughly 20 civil lawsus agast Gayle or her pany durg her years as an terr signer, although the Advote poted out that many of the s were mor and ced an expert as sayg that field of bs n be pecially lig.

Sats and Pelins officials also untered those claims by potg to a number of proment clients that were satisfied wh Gayle's work over the years, cludg several high-end hotels, supermarkets and to two sis ultimately reached a private settlement last year that clud the removal of non-votg shar of the teams om fay tsts.