Former exec settles suit over bad dates

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.

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.”

She said she paid $150,000 for a “CEO Level” membership with Kelleher International that guaranteed her matches from around the globe but then endured a series of bad courtships that fell short of what the dating service promised. Motorhead frontman and British heavy metal icon Lemmy Kilmister.

London’s Natural History Museum says the fossil of what’s now known as Lemmysuchus obtusidens was dug up in England in the early 20th century but was incorrectly categorized with other sea crocodiles found in the area.

Researchers recently took another look at the specimen and gave it a new classification and a scientific name of its own.

The fossil is housed at the museum. Curator Lorna Steel suggested it be named after Kilmister, who died in 2015. She says in a statement that “we’d like to think that he would have raised a glass to Lemmysuchus.”