Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: Super-successful O.C. real estate agent made name for herself in 1980s as an LAPD officer
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from December, 6, 2016. March is Women’s History Month. Elegantly dressed in black, her neck adorned with a white pearl necklace, Adrienne Brandes looks every inch the super-successful real estate agent she is — a specialist in high-end homes, most in Corona del Mar, for Surterre Properties, a boutique brokerage in Newport Beach. Brandes, 58, also is wearing her trademark red lipstick — a feminine flourish she applied daily in her former incarnation, way back in…
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