A libel lawsuit filed against Erin Brockovich in Los Angeles by her ex-husband has been settled.

"The parties just decided to get on with their lives and put it behind them," Brockovich attorney David Weeks said last week.

Reno stockbroker Steven Michael Brockovich filed the lawsuit in March 2001, alleging the legal assistant immortalized in a Hollywood film falsely claimed in two publications that he failed to pay child support for their daughter.

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He said the articles hurt his reputation in Reno, causing his business to drop.

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