Jill Kelley and Twin Closely Tied to Top Brass

The Florida socialite whose address of afflictive emails from Paula Broadwell ultimately led to the abandonment of CIA administrator Gen. David Petraeus artificial abutting ties with top aggressive and intelligence admiral in Tampa, hosting abundant parties at her beach abode and earning accolades as an "honorary ambassador" to the aggressive and an honorary delegate accepted for Korea.
But detractors say that Jill Kelley, 37, is a amusing climber whose abundant affairs is now threatened by millions of dollars in debt and accessible foreclosure on her home, and who approved to accomplishment her connections, conceivably even enlisting Gen. Petraeus in her sister's absinthian adolescent aegis fight.
Jill Kelley and her accompanying sister Natalie Khawam grew up in the Philadelphia area, daughters of a Lebanese immigrant brace who endemic a bounded restaurant. Jill and Natalie would arise calm on a 2003 adventure of a Food Channel affairs declared "Food Fight," in which they dressed in artist clothes while affable alligator in a cook-off adjoin two brothers.
After Kelley and her bedmate Scott, a blight surgeon, confused to Tampa, Khawam came to reside with them and their three accouchement in their $1.5 actor home on Bayshore Boulevard.
In Tampa, Kelley volunteered her time to abutment the military, planning and hosting accommodating contest for CENTCOM, the Aegis Department's Central Command, which is based at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base and has albatross for administering operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kelley, her bedmate and her sister Natalie became affable with aloft players, including both Gen. Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, administrator of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
"Jill is accepted as a accommodating host, a active individual," said Aaron Fodiman, editor and administrator of Tampa Bay Magazine.
Kelley's amusing efforts on account of the aggressive becoming her the contributed appellation of "honorary ambassador" to Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and she was aswell declared honorary admonition for South Korea.
In a statement, Kelley and her bedmate Scott said they are abutting accompany with the Petraeus family. The families accept spent the holidays calm several times over the years and acclaimed Christmas calm endure year, according to Petraeus' babe Anne's claimed blog.
"Our accompany from Tampa (the twins Jill and Natalie, additional Jill's bedmate Scott and their three little girls, as able-bodied as Natalie's 2-year-old son John) were in boondocks and came over for an afternoon barbecue and presents at our place," she wrote in the blog.
"There was no catechism they were friends," said Fodiman, "and no acumen why they wouldn't be friends." See the timeline of the Petraeus/Broadwell activity HERE.
This summer if Kelly accustomed bearding e-mails accusing her of affected a affable accord with aggressive assumption in Tampa, she declared the FBI, which traced those e-mails aback to the computer of Paula Broadwell, co-author of the Petraeus adventures "All In." Investigators are said to accept begin emails in Broadwell's inbox that acicular to an affectionate activity with Petraeus. Petraeus appear his abandonment as CIA administrator on Friday.
After the media spotlight angry from Broadwell to Kelley, questions about Kelley's affairs and her ties to the aggressive surfaced.
A U.S. official declared Kelley as a "nice, bored, affluent socialite" who drops "honorary" from her appellation and tells humans she is an ambassador. The alone authorization bowl of her Mercedes trumpets her cachet as an honorary delegate for the Korean government.
In a 911 band from this accomplished weekend, Kelley can be heard cogent bounded badge that declared trespassers on her acreage charge to be removed because of her adept status. "I'm an honorary delegate general," explains Kelley, "so I accept inviolability, so they should not be able to cantankerous my property."
In a account Tuesday, the U.S. State Administration emphasized that Kelley has no official adept role. "She does not plan for State," said a spokesman. "She has no amalgamation with State."
Kelley and her bedmate Scott accept aswell had to attack with banking problems. They accept been sued at atomic nine times. The brace faces foreclosure on their beach abode and on an appointment architecture they own. Cloister annal announce that the Kelleys owe added than $2 actor on the appointment building. The Kelly home aswell served as the appointment for a alms she and her bedmate set up for blight victims that spent tens of bags of dollars on travel, commons and entertainment.
The FBI has now baldheaded "potentially inappropriate" emails amid Gen. Allen and Kelly, according to a chief U.S. aegis official who is traveling with Aegis Secretary Leon Panetta. The administration is reviewing amid 20,000 and 30,000 abstracts affiliated to this matter, the official said. The email exchanges amid Kelley and Allen took abode from 2010 to 2012.
The U.S. official said the emails were "innocuous" and mostly about accessible banquet parties and seeing him on TV. Allen denies he was complex in an affair, a Pentagon official said. An agent for Allen told ABC News that Allen and his wife are accompany with Kelley and her bedmate and a lot of of the emails were beatific from Kelley to Allen's wife.
ABC News has abstruse that Gen. Allen aswell accustomed an bearding e-mail traced to Paula Broadwell, claiming Jill Kelley was a seductress.
Kelley's ancestors is continuing by her and abstinent any adverse allegations and insinuations.
"It is a shock," Kelley's brother, David Khawam, told ABC News' Tampa associate WFTS. "We are just aggravating to acquisition out area the pieces are falling appropriate now."
"She is actual committed to her bedmate and to her kids," he said. "So, something like this is absolutely appealing abundant a fluke. So, for anybody to acrylic her as contrarily is absolutely wrong."
But Kelley and her sister had allegedly developed so abutting to the high-level aggressive admiral that both Petraeus and Allen wrote belletrist on Khawam's account in September as she battled her ex-husband Grayson Wolfe for aegis of her son, even as the adjudicator in the aegis altercation wrote that Kwaham had "severe cerebral deficits."
In November 2011, the D.C. Superior Cloister had disqualified that Khawam's bedmate would get sole acknowledged and primary aegis of the child.
The adjudicator wrote that Khawam "has apparent an absolute apathy for the child's interest" in advancement a allusive accord with his father, that she "has acute claimed deficits in the areas of bluntness and integrity," and that she has apparent a "willingness to say anything, even beneath oath, to beforehand her own claimed interests at the expense" of her husband, the child, and others.
"The cloister absolutely expects that Ms. Khawam's arrangement of misrepresentations about around everything, including the a lot of important aspects of her life, will abide indefinitely," the adjudicator wrote.
It is not currently accepted if Petraeus or Allen knew about the judge's acrid comments apropos Khawam, but the two wrote belletrist on Khawam's account about a year after in September 2012.
Petraeus declared that he and his wife had accepted Khawam for about three years, accepting to apperceive her while confined in Tampa, and advancement their accord back then.
"We accept apparent a actual admiring accord -- a Mother alive harder to accommodate her son enjoyable, educational, and adorning experiences," Petraeus wrote, according to a archetype of the letter acquaint on Scribd. "Natalie acutely dotes on her son and goes to abundant lengths--and abundant expense--to absorb superior time with him."
A letter from Allen to the cloister aswell corrective a account of a admiring and adherent mother who "places the needs of her son aloft her own."
Natalie Khawam is aswell acutely in debt and filed for defalcation in Florida in April 2012. In a certificate filed with the Tampa Division of the U.S. Defalcation Court, Khawam cited $350,000 in assets and $3.6 actor in liabilities, including $800,000 owed to her sister and brother-in-law. Her listed claimed acreage included six Chanel purses, a Cartier watch, and a accession of design adornment admired at $50,000, including the watch. The items are in the control of Khawam's ex-husband, according to the cloister documents.
Khawam has aswell sued a above employer, Barry Cohen, claiming that Cohen, an attorney, owed her money and bootless to yield activity if she appear animal harassment. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Cohen wants the cloister to abolish the case and accomplished Khawam $500,000 for a "bad faith" filing.
In 2007, the Kelleys and Khawam founded a alms declared the Doctor Kelley Blight Foundation that was meant to conduct blight analysis and admission wishes to terminally ill adults. The charity, which the brace ran out of their home, aloft $157,000 and spent $157,000 afore traveling bankrupt. About $135,000 went to travel, entertainment, acknowledged fees, appointment expenses, "automotive expenses," and utilities.
The Kelley ancestors has assassin advocate Abbe Lowell, who represented John Edwards, and crisis administrator Judy Smith, who formed for Monica Lewinsky.

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