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Benson's daughter and granddaughter testified in court Tuesday, for hours.

NEW ORLEANS - Personal testimony filled the day at the interdiction trial of New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson Tuesday.

His daughter, Renee Benson spent five hours on the witness stand. It's the second time Renee has had to testify in the high-stakes family feud.

In a San Antonio hearing about moves to swap assets in her trust, Renee described a relationship with her father that had been falling apart over the past several years, with little contact leading up to Tom Benson's decision to fire her from his businesses, sending her and her children an email saying he wanted them out of his life.

Monday was the first time the heirs had been in the same room as Tom Benson since that highly-publicized email went out just days after Christmas, according to their attorney Randy Smith.

"The whole thing is hard," Smith said Tuesday.

Tom Benson entered the Civil District Courthouse Tuesday asking reporters, "How y'all doing?" Seeming in good spirits during the first two days of the trial, he remarked at one point Monday that he wanted to give the cameras a smile.

After Renee Benson wrapped up her testimony mid-afternoon Tuesday, Rita Benson LeBlanc took the stand. In recent years, she had been publicly groomed as Benson's heir-apparent to take over the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans. In fact, her attorney said she had even been fully vetted by the National Football League to run the football team.

That all changed in December when Benson decided he wanted his heirs out of the family businesses, instead wanting to hand the reins of his empire over to his wife Gayle.

Rita Benson LeBlanc is expected to re-take the witness stand on Wednesday morning for cross-examination.

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