Early Life
Bentley was born on November 20, 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Culver Academies. After graduating from The Lawrenceville School, At the age of 19 years old Bentley moved to Nashville Tennessee. Bentley spent a year at the University of Vermont before transferring to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where he graduated in 1997. He was initiated into Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity while at Vermont.
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