Jill Kelley Tell-all Book; Socialite Denounces Seeking Fame from Petraeus Scandal
With every scandal comes the infamous tell-all book that follows.
Now Jill Kelley says she is writing her own account of the scandal that tarnished the career of former CIA director David Petraeus.
The 37-year-old Florida socialite is apparently close to finishing writing her book which already has publishers waiting.
"Trust me, there is going to be a book in the New Year. You can count on it," said a friend of Kelley's, as reported by the Daily Mail.
The friend continued: "Jill is very angry, and it's fair to say she wants to tell her side of the story. She has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live and feels she has been made to look like an fool. She said her best way of putting the record straight is a book."
The book is her way of "payback" as she claims she was humiliated for how her name has been used since the news broke. She apparently felt that she was considered a mix of a Kardashian and a military groupie.
A colonel at the MacDill Air Force Base supposedly said many people considered her a military groupie and likened her to the Kardashians.
"Of everything that has been written and said about her, that is what hurts the most," said the friend. "She finds it insulting as the Kardashians go out of their way to get publicity. Jill did not seek any of this.
The nation was shocked by the scandal that saw the resignation of the famous 58-year-old general. Petraeus was caught in a sordid affair last month with his biographer Paula Broadwell.
Kelley's firsthand information on the affair spawned a full FBI investigation into the matter.
Petraeus wasn't the only powerful figure caught in the scandal. General John Allen joined the messy situation when he supposedly sent racy emails with Kelley who met the general and Petraeus while they were stationed at MacDill Air Force Base near her home in Tampa Bay.
The media also had a field day when it was discovered that one of the FBI agents looking into the case had sent shirtless photos of himself to Kelley. 47-year-old agent Frederick Humphries is being investigated for possible inappropriate activities with Jill Kelley, who allegedly received threatening emails from Broadwell.
An investigation into the agent's relationship with Kelley found that he had sent her a shirtless photo of himself around six months before Kelley started receiving the emails from Broadwell. Humphries said that the two did not have a relationship and is quoted in the Seattle Times as saying it "was a tongue-in-cheek joke."
There should be plenty of juicy details in the new book that haven't come about in the case of the disgraced general and the humiliated socialite.
