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Kelleys and Maddons hosting wounded warriors for Gasparilla

 
Published Feb. 16, 2015

TAMPA — Jill Kelley is back in the Gasparilla party business.

The Tampa socialite, who previously hosted events that attracted some top military brass from nearly MacDill Air Force base, including Gen. David Petraeus, is co-hosting a party Saturday with her Bayshore Boulevard neighbors, Jaye and Joe Maddon, the former Rays and now Cubs manager.

Among the guests of honor will be two dozen wounded warriors, service personnel who were injured in the line duty. "It's the greatest honor to share this memorable day with our country's bravest heroes — our wounded warriors," said Kelley, whose last Gasparilla event was in 2012, before the scandal that led to Petraeus' downfall and her lawsuit that the government invaded her privacy.

Kelley made the New York Post's Page Six in December when she reported meeting with the Pope and Catholic bishops from Middle Eastern nations, and that she had bought a home in Pakistan for three orphaned children.