Her political savvy got her all the way to President Obama’s doorstep.
The military groupie at the center of the scandal that brought down former Gen. David Petraeus made three visits to the White House in the last two months, sources said yesterday.
Jill Kelley and her twin sister Natalie Khawam ate breakfast and lunch with an unidentified mid-level staffer at the White House cafeteria on separate days in September and October.
On Nov. 4, the twins, along with Kelley’s surgeon husband and their three kids, took a tour of the building.
That was two days before Election Day — and just five days before the Kelleys’ close friend Petraeus, 60, resigned after only 14 months as CIA director over an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
“I was at the WH with my friends in the Administration this weekend — the stress was surreal!” Kelley wrote Tampa’s mayor in an e-mail he released yesterday. “But glad POTUS [president of the United States] has been reelected!”
Petraeus’ adultery was exposed when the FBI discovered that the married Broadwell, 40, was sending harassing e-mails to Kelley, 37, warning her to stay away from Petraeus.
Kelley’s White House visits were first reported yesterday by Politico.com.
A White House source told The Post that socialite Kelley met the staffer at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where she was a social liaison.
Kelley also developed a cozy friendship with married Marine Gen. John Allen, the current commander in Afghanistan.
Their relationship is also part of a Pentagon probe and Allen’s next posting to head NATO forces in Europe is on hold.
Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Times revealed Kelley branded Broadwell a “criminal” in an angry e-mail she fired off Tuesday to Mayor Bob Buckhorn, complaining about the media.
“I wouldn’t care if they got the facts right and the focus was on the criminal that stalked all of us,” Kelley wrote.