Personal Life
Before her marriage to Kevin Sullivan in 1985, Nancy had previously been married to and divorced from Jim Daus.
Nancy and Chris Benoit became engaged in 1997 after her divorce from Sullivan that same year, although Benoit only referred to Nancy as his fiancée even after they were married. She managed her husband's career from their home in Atlanta.
She gave birth to her son Daniel Christopher Benoit on February 23, 2000. Nancy married Chris Benoit on November 23, 2000. However, in 2003, she filed for divorce, citing the marriage as "irrevocably broken" and alleging "cruel treatment." She later dropped the suit, as well as a restraining order filed on her husband.
In December 2005, Nancy had back and neck fusion surgery with Lloyd Youngblood.
After Nancy's death in 2007, Hustler published nude photographs of Nancy from a shoot taken when Nancy was 20 years old. The length of time between the events caused controversy, causing critics to claim that Hustler owner Larry Flynt was attempting to capitalize on the event. The family of Nancy Benoit took legal action against Hustler. The appellate court ruled that, “The photographs published by neither relate to the incident of public concern conceptually nor correspond with the time period during which Benoit was rendered, against her will, the subject of public scrutiny".
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