The Daily Mail reports that David Petraeus’ wife Holly is threatening divorce over his admitted affair with Paula Broadwell. The anonymously sourced story says that she is suspicious that he also had an affair with Jill Kelley, which he denies.
The article says that she “keeps demanding to know how many other women he has cheated on her with.”
They have been married since 1974 and have a son and daughter.
I guess we should have seen this coming — Gloria Allred is now representing Jill Kelley’s twin sister, Natalie Khawam, in the Paula Broadwell-Gen. Petraeus-Gen. Allen scandal.
Both Gen. Petraeus and Gen. Allen wrote letters in support of Natalie in her custody battle with her ex, Grayson Wolfe, or, as I call him, Gray Wolfe.
The menacing emails sent by David Petraeus’ ex-mistress to a Florida socialite promised to make the apparent rival “go away” and boasted of her friends in high places, the Daily News has learned.
Jill Kelley is the Tampa woman whom Paula Broadwell warned to stay away from her lover, Gen. Petraeus. Everything unraveled when Kelley went to the FBI about Broadwell’s emails. Now we learn that Kelley tried to cash in big-time from her friendship with Petraeus.
From “Jill Kelley, key figure in David Petraeus scandal, led lavish life,” Shashank Bengali, David Cloud, Joseph Tanfani, L A Times:
At the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August, New York energy entrepreneur Adam Victor was introduced to [Jill] Kelley. She was described as “a very close friend of Gen. Petraeus,” who had helped Kelley become South Korea’s honorary consul.
Victor, who was looking to establish a major coal project in South Korea, invited Kelley to New York in mid-September. There, she again played up her Petraeus ties. Victor then flew Kelley to Hawaii to meet with a South Korean delegation to help pave the way for negotiations.
But then, Victor said, Kelley asked for 2% of the gross cost of the project for her compensation. Informed that would mean a fee of about $80 million, Kelley persisted until Victor ended the relationship. An industry standard compensation would be no more than $1 million, Victor said.
“It was such an astronomical figure that it suggested she had no experience in negotiating these types of deals,” Victor said. “Gen. Petraeus had a lapse in judgment in using his influence to put her in that position.”
We’ve learned that both Gen. Petraeus and Gen. Allen wrote letters to a judge in a custody battle involving Jill Kelley’s twin sister, Natalie. What their expertise is in child custody matters, I have no idea.
Now we’ve learned that Natalie’s ex is named Grayson P. Wolfe. Yes, that’s right, the guy’s name is Gray Wolfe. Perhaps he’s friends with Wile E. Coyote.
The other interesting thing is that he worked for the Bush Administration in Iraq in 2004, back when Paul Bremer was emperor there, trying to encourage private investment.
Jill Kelley is the Tampa woman who went to the FBI about harrassing emails that turned out to be from Gen. Petraeus’ mistress Paula Broadwell. She is now involved in an investigation of top Afghaniston commander Gen. Allen because of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails between Kelley and Allen in the last couple of years.
Now HuffPo reports that Kelley and her husband, who is a surgeon, had a phony cancer charity. They took in about $160,000, spent it on meals, entertainment, travel, and lawyers, and then declared the charity bankrupt in 2007.
Kelley and her husband have been in financial trouble recently, with threatened foreclosures on two properties and lawsuits for unpaid credit card bills.
Jill Kelley’s twin sister Natalie was an officer with the cancer charity. Natalie filed for bankruptcy last April with $3.6 million in liabilities.
Now the Pentagon says that it is investigating the commander who succeeded Gen. Petraeus in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, for “inappropriate communications” with Jill Kelley, the woman who complained to the FBI about threatening emails that turned out to be from Petraeus’ mistress, Paula Broadwell.
I think the word we’re looking for here is “Byzantine.”
We know now that the FBI whistle-blower in the Petraeus case is a friend of Jill Kelley, whom she contacted about the disturbing emails she received from Paula Broadwell.
He became “obsessed” with the case and was barred from any involvement with it, although he was not directly involved in the investigation, which had been turned over to cyber crimes. Worried that nothing would come of the investigation, he went to GOP Congressman David Reichert, who went to Eric Cantor.
The whistle-blower himself has been investigated for sending shirtless pictures of himself to Jill Kelley at some point before the Petraeus investigation.
The woman whom Paula Broadwell warned to stay away from Gen. Petraeus is an unpaid social planner at McDill Air Force in Tampa. Gen. Petraeus was head of Central Command (“Centcom”), based in Tampa, from 2008 to 2010.
Kelley says that she and her family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for five years.
Embattled Farmers 