Family file suit claiming Tom Benson incompetent to control New Orleans Saints, Pelicans

[WoodysGirl]

The shocking struggle for control of the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans escalated Thursday (Jan. 23) as family members associated with Rita Benson LeBlanc filed a lawsuit claiming that the teams' owner and family patriarch Tom Benson is incompetent and is being directed by a manipulative wife and her allies at the highest level of the sports empire.

The suit was filed one day after Tom Benson unexpectedly announced plans to transfer future ownership of the clubs to wife, Gayle, cutting off his daughter, Renee LeBlanc, and his two grandchildren, Ryan LeBlanc and Rita Benson LeBlanc, who until recently had been designated as the heir apparent.

The legal battle lays bare the internal strife within one of Louisiana's richest families and its highest profile business owners, pitting Benson and his wife of 10 years against his adopted daughter and her children.

The lawsuit seeking to block the succession change was filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court at mid-day Thursday and assigned to Judge Kern Reese. It presents numerous claims that Benson is mentally and physically unfit to manage his personal or business affairs.


Read the rest: http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2015/01/rita_benson_leblanc_tom_benson.html

 

[kristie]

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Every since I seen him do his little umbrella dance years ago...I knew something was not quite right with him...

 

[joseephuss]

Every since I seen him do his little umbrella dance years ago...I knew something was not quite right with him...

I knew he wasn't quite right when the team decided to keep Rob Ryan on as defensive coordinator.

 

[HeavyBarrel]

Jokes aside, Mr. Benson is competent in what he's doing as far as the transfer of ownership.

 

[joseephuss]

Jokes aside, Mr. Benson is competent in what he's doing as far as the transfer of ownership.

From the outside looking in I can't come a conclusion either way. The wife could be manipulative and taking advantage of Benson. Maybe the kids are the ones being manipulative. That suit makes a lot of claims.

 

[khiladi]

If they can rule mental instability to take the Clippers away from Sterling, which apparently it seems they can based on the suit, I wouldn't be surprised if the kids win.

Here is the complete lawsuit:

http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2015/01/read_the_complete_rita_benson.html