Petraeus's 'Sex Under The Desk' Mistress Pictured Just A Few Seats From His Wife As Colleague Tells How She 'Got Her Claws Into Him' Unidentified military source says Paula Broadwell relentlessly followed Petraeus to private events and ‘went from someone very likeable to a shameless self-promoting prom queen’ Petraeus was caught after exchanging sexually explicit emails with his 40-year-old mistress By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and JAMES NYE 10 November 2012 With their body language almost mirrored, Holly Petraeus, the now humiliated wife of former CIA chief David Petraeus sits just feet away from his 'mistress' Paula Broadwell in June of...