Two former American National Ballet members, Hanna Manka and Sarah Walborn, have shared their unsettling experiences with Douglas Benefield on a new Law & Crime podcast. They describe witnessing his erratic behavior, lack of planning, and manipulative tactics in the lead-up to the controversial 'Black Swan murder trial' where Ashley Benefield, his wife, was convicted.
Two of Ashley Benefield ’s fellow ballerinas have opened up about seeing her husband Douglas’s “angry side” in a new podcast that the creators believe could support her claims of later having shot him to death to defend herself from domestic violence at his hands.
“Absolutely nothing on the program,” Manka said on the excerpt of the podcast titled Black Swan Murder, whose first two episodes wereWalborn added that it became obvious there was no plan for the random choreography their superiors were giving them to work on. “It was very apparent in the studio that it was a bunch of charades and that there was no ultimate goal with the material that we were working on in the studio.
But Walborn said the ploy – which she described as manipulation – failed to move the group because “there were so many other concerns involved,” including the facts that Ashley Benefield was conspicuously absent and dancers weren’t being paid. Realizing that the ballerinas’ patience was running out, Walborn recalled how Douglas Benefield showed up one day “with a lot of money and one-by-one each dancer their allotment of cash” with hopes that it would “fix everything”.
In turn, that prompted Douglas Benefield to raise his voice and say: “You don’t need to keep receipts – don’t worry about it. I have it taken care of,’” according to Walborn.
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