Last May, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington filed a defamation lawsuit against his former girlfriend, Jennifer Allen. Allen had accused Arrington of rape on social media and declined to retract her statements.

The lawsuit Arrington filed has now been dropped. It's been "dismissed with prejudice," meaning Allen can't be sued by Arrington again for those same defamatory comments. Valleywag's Sam Biddle, who found the latest court filing, suggests a settlement may be in the works.

We reached out to Arrington for comment. He says he has a blog post coming. When that's up, we'll update our post.

UPDATE: Arrington's blog post about the dropped lawsuit is here. "She retracted her statements and apologized, which is the very relief I sought before filing this action, and I accordingly dismissed the lawsuit," Arrington writes.

He also says that a few key things happened that led to the dismissal. "Allen accused me of raping another woman – that woman, once we discovered who she was, told us and the court that Allen had tried to coerce her into saying I had raped her," he writes.

Arrington also says an ex boyfriend of Allen's suggested that Allen was "delusional."

"He said that Jenn believed I had her under satellite surveillance and routinely hacked her phone calls impersonating other people...She was also unable to tell truth from delusion."

Here's the backstory on the dispute between Allen and Arrington, which led to the defamation suit:

On March 29, 2013, Jenn Allen posted a statement on Facebook that accused Arrington of physical and emotional abuse. Allen alleged that Arrington "threatened to murder her if she told anyone" about the way he treated her.

News of Allen's post quickly spread to media outlets, most notably Gawker, which addressed Allen's post and did some further research into the allegations. Allen responded multiple times on the Gawker articles with messages that further blemished Arrington's reputation.

Arrington's lawyer asked Allen to write a public retraction of her "defamatory" statements by close of business on April 15 2013. Allen didn't.

The lawsuit was then filed against her. Arrington's version of events were detailed in the 43-page document, which can be found here.