She married film director Jonathan Benson at the age of 20, but the marriage had difficulties and she moved to Argentina in 1967 when she was 22.

[citation needed] On the morning of 2 January 1972, Benson was stabbed 10 times and buried alive by Stanley Abbott and Edward Chadee.

[1] Her badly decomposed body was found seven weeks later, in a shallow grave near the home of Michael X.

Hattie Morahan plays Benson, whom the film portrays as a spy whose role is to find any additional photos or negatives Michael X may have.

Benson is a central character in Diana Athill's memoir of her friendship with Gale's lover, Hakim Jamal, Make Believe: A True Story.