GAYLE BENSON

$3.1

BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: ! SOURCE: PRO SPORTS TEAMS AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: NEW ORLEANS PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. Benson, who got her start working for a costume jeweler in New York City in the 1960s, inherited NFL’s New Orleans Saints and NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans from her husband, Tom Benson, after he died in March 2018 at age 90.