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PHILADELPHIA — A retired corporate executive said in a lawsuit that she spent $150,000 on a matchmaking service that set her up with a string of highly incompatible suitors, including men who were married, mentally unstable or felons.

Darlene Daggett, former president for U.S. commerce for the West Chester-based home shopping channel QVC, settled the lawsuit against Corte Madera, California-based Kelleher International hours after it was filed in federal court last week, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Kelleher chief executive Amber Kelleher-Andrews, a former actress who appeared on “Baywatch” and “Melrose Place,” said in a statement to the newspaper that her company is responsible for thousands of marriages over the years.

“It doesn’t always work out,” Kelleher-Andrews told the newspaper. She said her company works to end courtships “fairly and reasonably.”

According to the lawsuit, the 62-year-old Daggett, a divorced mother of four, wanted someone to spend her retirement with, and she felt “social dating sites did not provide her with the degree of screening and privacy she was looking for.”