“Law & Order: SVU” made her a household name as ADA Casey Novak. But off screen, Diane Neal’s years-long legal fight with ex-boyfriend J.B. Benn—and the splashback from accusations about her former co-stars—turned into a different kind of procedural: messy filings, dueling narratives, and a fandom trying to separate character from real life.
In November 2019, Neal filed a civil suit in New York accusing Benn, a celebrity magician, of a pattern of abuse: sexual and physical assault, financial exploitation, and alleged cruelty to her pets.
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