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Jill Kelley's New Lawyer Is The Go-To Guy For Clients With Huge Sex Scandals

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Rielle HunterNews emerged Tuesday that Jill Kelley, the "other, other woman" enmeshed in the Petraeus scandal, has hired DC superlawyer Abbe Lowell as well as a crisis PR guru.

Lowell is a Beltway power broker and has represented lawmakers, lobbyists, local governments, and even the actors Steven Seagal and Sean Combs.

But he seems to be the go-to lawyer for clients with high-profile sex scandals, including the one behind a criminal case against John Edwards.

Here are other sex-scandal-plagued clients of Lowell's, according to his official law firm bio:

  • Former senator John Ensign of Nevada, who had an affair with the wife of one of his staffers.
  • Ex-Congressman Gary Condit, whose affair with DC intern Chandra Levy was exposed after her disappearance.
  • Bill Boner, a former mayor of Nashville, Tenn., who appeared on the Phil Donahue show with a night club singer he got engaged to while still married to his third wife.
  • Ex-Nevada governor Jim Gibbons, who was accused of groping a Las Vegas cocktail waitress in 2006. During the case Gibbons revealed he hadn't had sex since 1995, a local TV station reported in 2010.

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Before joining Business Insider, Erin was a senior reporter at Law360.com, where she covered the Supreme Court, sex-bias lawsuits, and legal battles over allegedly defective products. Previously, she served as a bureau chief for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Dalton, Georgia, the self-proclaimed Carpet Capital of the World, where she covered motorcycle gangs and immigration, among other topics. Erin holds a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism and enjoys reading the style section when she isn't following the latest big crime story. She grew up in Marietta, Georgia.