article_snippet: David Petraeus stepped down as head of the CIA after the CIA affair emerged in November 2012.
article_snippet: An attorney for Petraeus, Robert Barnett, said An attorney for Petraeus, Robert Barnett had no immediate comment.
article_snippet: Petraeus, a four-star general who served as commander of the U.S. Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned from the CIA in 2012 when the affair emerged but always denied criminal wrongdoing.
article_snippet: Broadwell, now 42, met Petraeus, 62, while Paula Broadwell was a graduate student at Harvard University, where Paula Broadwell was working on a dissertation about him.
article_snippet: Paula Broadwell wrote him biography, 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus', which afforded them considerable time together.
article_snippet: But the relationship was later uncovered whiled the FBI investigated claims that one of Petraeus' friends, Florida socialite Jill Kelley, was receiving threatening emails.
article_snippet: Paula Broadwell remains married to husband Scott, pictured together left in 2012, while Petraeus' is married to wife Holly, right, despite the affair that forced Petraeus is married to wife Holly to step down as CIA chief in 2012 .
article_snippet: Petraeus, who remains married to wife Holly, acknowledged the affair that forced him to step down as CIA chief in 2012 as the CIA director stepped down.
article_snippet: Petraeus was a celebrated general who was credited with helping pull Iraq from the brink of an all-out civil war.