DAMAGE CONTROL

Broadwell Hires D.C. PR Firm

And Kelley’s twin sister hires Gloria Allred.

Everyone is lawyering up. Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose affair with former CIA head David Petraeus led to his resignation, has hired Washington, D.C. public relations firm Glover Park Group to represent her as she navigates the fallout from the scandal. Jill Kelley, the woman who reported Broadwell to the FBI, is being represented by trial lawyer Abbe Lowell, whose previous clients include John Edwards and Jack Abramoff. Kelley also drafted crisis PR juggernaut Judy Smith, who inspired the character Olivia Pope on the ABC drama Scandal. Kelley’s twin sister, Natalie Khawan, has for some unknown reason hired shameless celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred.