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Sharks were his pet project?

Gust Brown, a former Gap lawyer and executive, has remained mostly out of the public spotlight -- except when the New York Post called her Brown’s secret “Lady Lawyer of Love” during his 1992 campaign for president. Or, more recently, when a woman's voice -- widely believed to be hers -- was heard during Brown’s campaign for governor on an answering machine referring to Republican rival Meg Whitman as a political “whore.”

Yet Gust Brown has played influential roles helping manage Brown’s campaigns and staff during his years as Oakland mayor and state attorney general. She will continue to be a close, unpaid adviser when her husband takes office in January.

Their working relationship, she said, “is a very unusual arrangement.” And their personal one? “Very rare,” she said. “I couldn’t imagine I would want to spend 24 hours a day with someone. It’s been very fulfilling and very fun because we get along very well and enjoy being together.”

Unlike her late mother-in-law, Bernice Brown, Anne Gust Brown, 52, will be less the hostess and more the working partner. She prefers serving friends bowls of spaghetti rather than formal dinners. And unlike Maria Shriver, who created the Women’s Conference, California’s next first lady has no plans to take on a social cause.

Her pet project? Jerry Brown.

“You have to know what your real passion is,” she said during a recent interview in the Oakland warehouse converted into Brown’s campaign headquarters. “I’m more with helping Jerry with the government and the problems he faces. I know how Jerry thinks.”