Her most remarkable affair, about which she later wrote a book, was "a fleeting, and distinctly odd" relationship with Hakim Jamal, an American Black radical who asserted he was God.
The writer V. S. Naipaul later described Benson as Jamal's "white-woman slave".
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Jamal wrote From the Dead Level, a memoir of his life and memories of Malcolm X. He was romantically involved with several high-profile women, notably Jean Seberg, Diana Athill and Gale Benson.
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