'Willie Brown is not going to be around. He’s gone—hello people, move on,’ Harris told SF Weekly in a 2003 magazine profile insisting she would be ‘independent’ of Brown and that ‘he would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me.’
Brown appointed Harris to two different state boards, which paid her more than $400,000 over five years and gave her the keys to a BMW. He opened the doors to the wealthy and the powerful people of San Francisco.
Brown broke up with Harris after their year-long relationship.