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Tinder Settles Fast With Co-Founder In Sexual Harassment Suit

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BuzzFeed - The shocking lawsuit, which sparked a national conversation around the treatment of women in tech, has been dropped. The cost to Tinder isn’t public. Update: Justin Mateen, who was at the center of the suit, is no longer with the company. Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, Sean Rad, and Whitney Wolfe of Tinder at a party at Chateau Marmont’s Bar Marmont on Feb. 3, in Hollywood. Photo by Michael Buckner / Getty Images for Glamour Tinder and parent company IAC have rapidly settled a major sexual harassment lawsuit, a lawyer for former executive and co-founder Whitney Wolfe said. "Whitney's lawsuit against Tinder has been resolved (without admission of wrongdoing)," John Mullan, a partner at Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP, the firm representing Wolfe, said in an email to BuzzFeed News. "She is proud of her role as a co-founder of Tinder and of the role she played in the app's success. She is now pleased to be able to focus her energy, talents, and ideas on exciting

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