…avid Petraeus since his resignation, says Jill Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and wife, Holly. David Petraeus resigned while lawmakers still had questions about the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Lawmakers said it’s possible that David Petraeus will still…
…uple’s relationship while she was secretly carrying on an illicit affair with David Petraeus In Paula Broadwell’s book, she described Holly Petraeus as a witty head-turner. “In the fall of 1973, Holly Knowlton was a senior at Dickinson College, a beautiful, smart and witty young woman,” Paula Broadwell wrote. At the time, David Petraeus was attending West Point. “On a visit to West Poi…
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…ried 38 years after meeting on a blind date when David Petraeus was a student at the military academy at West Point, where Holly’s father was the superintendent. David Petraeus graduated in June 1947 and the couple married the following month, before going on to have two children, Ann and Stephen, and travelling throughout the world with his work. Despite moving 24 times in 38 years, Holly P…
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…agency, saying: “Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life’s greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.” David Petraeus, 60, has been married to Holly, née Knowlton, since 1975, after they meet when he was a military cadet at West Point and she was the daughter of the academy’s superintendent. When he was sworn in as director of the CIA by Vice President Joe Bide…
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US Attorney General Eric Holder is under fire as questions emerge over why he did not tell President Barack Obama that David Petraeus was having an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Eric Holder was told by the FBI that they were investigating the relationship between the director of the CIA and Paula Broadwell in late summer, but appears not to have shared the information with anyone el…
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…ajority Whip, who spoke to him and then informed the FBI of the conversation. Ronald Kessler, a Newsmax journalist, said he was informed of the affair and FBI investigation by an FBI source on October 10th. David Petraeus and Paul Broadwell were interviewed during the week of October 29th and both admitted their affair. Paula Broadwell was interviewed again on November 2nd, at which time the FBI i…
…ny sense would say: <<Boy! This guy – there doesn’t seem to be a better man than this around>>.” Brig. Gen. James Shelton, who lives in Cape Haze, Florida, first met David Petraeus in the 1970s when they were serving together in Erzurum, Turkey when Petraeus was a lowly second lieutenant in the 173rd Airborne Divison. James Shelton said: “I walked into a tent with a bottle of Ballanti…
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…rsity. Linda Robinson has also been a senior editor at the respected Foreign Affairs magazine and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and a string of policy journals. Over 18 months in 2007 and 2008 she conducted “extensive” interviews with David Petraeus to complete Tell Me How This Ends, so named after what Petraeus remarked when the war in Iraq turned into an insurg…
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…n children, a son who was an Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, and a daughter. Known for his intensely competitive nature, David Petraeus graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1974, was the top of his 1983 class at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and went on to earn a doctorate in International Relations at Princeton in 1987. His commands included the legen…
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…killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others. It was an issue during the presidential campaign that ended with Barack Obama’s re-election Tuesday. David Petraeus had led the CIA for only 14 months. His sudden departure threatened to usher in a period of instability at the spy agency, which is grappling with a leveling off in its budget after a decade of steady increases. The agency i…
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…<<interventional radiologist>>. She would draw out the word <<interventional>> for emphasis.” We know that she can run 6-minute miles and do hundreds of press-ups, that she has 13% body fat and is an ironman triathlete and marathon runner. We know all this because Paula Broadwell has told us. We know that she hosted a charity BBQ for wounded veterans because she invited Jon…
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The FBI started probing emails sent by Paula Broadwell to Jill Kelley, a family friend of David Petraeus, in May 2012, and soon discovered that she had been in a romantic relationship with the decorated former general. September 6, 2011: David Petraeus was unanimously appointed to be the head of the Central Intelligence Agency after spending over 37 years in the military. November 2011: David P…
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John Kelly, a small business owner and youth baseball coach from Chicago could be ruined after his friends and family exposed his racist Facebook rant against Whiney Houston. John Kelly used the “n” word to describe Whitney Houston on his own Facebook account. The offensive term was spotted by a family friend and re-posted on Westside Baseball of Oak Lawn Facebook page. John Kelly has been suspen…
A close friend of David Petraeus said the disgraced general spent Thanksgiving with Holly, his wife-of-38-years, as the couple try to rebuild their shattered marriage. The friend said: “I spoke to David before Thanksgiving and wished him and Holly happy holidays. I think that things are dying down.” General David Petraeus’ daughter Anne beamed as she blogged about her Thanksgiving Day, spen…
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…men I have worked with over the years, I can honestly say that Dave Petraeus stands out as one of our nation’s great patriots.” CIA director David Petraeus has been married to Holly since 1975 David Petraeus is believed to have feared that his infidelity would eventually become public, and therefore took the decision to quit before he was forced out. Extra-marital affairs are consider…
Linked arm-in-arm, Paula Broadwell and her husband, Dr. Scott Broadwell, were seen together yesterday evening for the first time since the news broke of her affair with shamed former CIA Director David Petraeus. Arriving at her brother’s home in the Mount Pleasant suburb of Washington D.C. in a black SUV, Paula and Scott Broadwell put on what was a clear show of solidarity as they marched f…
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…ead on TV. For now, however, he hardly leaves the house and is having to prove to Holly Petraeus that he deserves her trust again. The New York Times said he plans to put his life on hold for the next 12 months to sort out the mess. A friend said: “Several of us are concerned. He’s a very active individual. He needs to stay active.” Another friend said: “I asked him whether he’d seen a certain art…
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The coterie of officers and advisers surrounding General David Petraeus had become suspicious of Paula Broadwell, now known to have been his mistress, due to her playful Facebook status updates they claim disclosed sensitive details of military operations in Afghanistan. Paula Broadwell, the woman who penned David Petraeus’s biography and ultimately began a romantic relationship with the ma…
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…of the Muslim world. Michael Morell rather than David Petraeus now is expected to testify at closed congressional briefings next week on the assault on the consulate in Benghazi, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. David Petraeus, who turned 60 on Wednesday, has been married for 38 years to Holly Petraeus, whom he met when he was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West…
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…lley did not postpone a lavish garden party that was thrown for her daughter’s birthday. The gathering featured a professional deejay, an inflatable bouncy castle and catered meals and more than 100 adult guests. Neighbors said Jill Kelley was a “devoted mother” who enjoyed entertaining at her 5,000 sq ft home. One neighbor said: “Jill is very proud of her work with the military and she does…
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Former CIA director David Petraeus is making his first public speech since resigning in November over his extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell. David Petraeus is scheduled to speak on Tuesday night at a University of Southern California event honoring the military as he carves out a role for himself as a voice on energy, economic and veterans issues. A prepared text of his speech,…
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Holly Petraeus, wife of disgraced General David Petraeus, is so angry at his affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell that “furious would be an understatement”, a former spokesman for the ex-CIA boss has revealed. Speaking to ABC News, Colonel Steven Boylan said Holly Petraeus, who has been married to the former general for 38 years, is “not exactly pleased right now”. “Anyone put in that situa…
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…t cadet. “He had no idea the blind date was with <<the boss’ daughter>> until it was too late to get out of it!” Holly Petraeus said. Holly and David Petraeus married in 1974, two months after he graduated at the top of his class Holly and David Petraeus married in 1974, two months after he graduated at the top of his class. For nearly 38 years, Holly Petraeus has be…
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MTV has gotten their paws on R. Kelly’s new memoir Soulacoaster, The Diary of Me, and the most surprising detail is that the King of R&B needed a hanky after watching The Notebook movie. The cheesy 2004 romance movie was the final spark to push R. Kelly to divorce wife and former back up dancer Andrea Kelly, inciting an intense period of introspection about the woman he married in 1996 and ha…
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…ilitary matters.” Holly Petraeus, David Petraeus’ wife, aka Holly Knowlton, is remaining silent about the General’s cheating scandal David Petraeus, 60, has been married to Holly, née Knowlton, since 1975, after they meet when he was a military cadet at West Point. Holly Petraeus is the daughter of four-star General William Knowlton, who was superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Poi…
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