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Ashley Benefield, former ballerina convicted of killing husband in "Black Swan" case, sentenced to 20 years in prison

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Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 years , with credit for time served, followed by 10 years probation.

Doug Benefield , a widower whose wife had died nine months earlier , was killed in September 2020 .

The case became known as the "Black Swan murder" trial, with some comparing Benefield to the protagonist of the 2010 film ' Black Swan' .

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