Family Members: Pelicans owner is incompetent, directed by gold-digging opportunist wife

Carl Herrera · Jan 22, 2015

Family members filed a lawsuit saying family patriarch Tom Benson, who owns the Saints and Pelicans, is incompetent and is being "directed by a manipulative wife and her allies" after announcing that his wife Gayle Benson would succeed him as owner of the Saints and Pelicans after he dies, according to Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Leading the battle against Tom Benson is Rita Benson LeBlanc, one of Tom's two grandchildren who was positioned to take over the teams. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, attempts to block the succession change to Gayle Benson.

The suit came one day after Tom Benson's announcement that he would transfer future ownership of the Saints and Pelicans to his wife Gayle. According to the Times-Picayune, that cuts out daughter Renee LeBlanc and grandchildren Ryan LeBlanc and Rita Benson LeBlanc.

The lawsuit said that the 87-year-old Benson's "declining health is much worse than publicly known and has rendered him unfit to manage his personal affairs or the business of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans," the Times-Picayune story said. Duncan's story also says that the rest of the family is claiming Gayle Benson is "a gold-digging opportunist who has taken advantage of her husband's unfit state of health and ostracized family members in grasping for power and riches."

Very ugly stuff.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...ver-saints-ownership-gets-ugly-204133643.html

Speaking of gold-digging opportunists, I wonder if this opens up a window for Morey to make a trade with them.

bmd · Jan 22, 2015

New Orleans likes Gayle Benson. They think the daughter Rita is a psycho.

If it was up to public opinion, they'd rather Gayle get the team than Rita.

Pirytic · Jan 22, 2015

I thought NO was French, not Italian... Not long before she poisons him and burns down the superdome...

heypartner · Jan 22, 2015

bmd said: ↑

New Orleans likes Gayle Benson. They think the daughter Rita is a psycho.
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The Saints appear to like Rita though.

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