Gayle Benson: $2.8 Billion Net Worth

Gayle Benson is an American businesswoman and sports franchise owner. She inherited both the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans when her husband, Tom Benson, passed away in March 2018. Benson became the first woman to be a majority shareholder of the voting stock in an NBA and an NFL franchise.

Tom Benson was her third marriage, and she has three children, two of whom are deceased. She met Tom Benson while collecting a donation for a church, and they hit it off. She ran an interior decorating business called Gayle Bird Interiors Ltd. Benson and her husband bought a majority share of Dixie Brewing Co. in 2017 and donated millions of dollars to charities.

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