Did weight-loss firm wrongly use Jennifer Love Hewitt’s image? Lawsuit settled

Jennifer Love Hewitt and one of the parties the actress sued for allegedly using her image to promote an oral weight loss supplement without her permission reached a settlement, a courtroom clerk said Monday.

Hewitt sued MarzSprays LLC in Los Angeles Superior Court in June 2014, seeking unspecified damages and an injunction stopping the firm from further alleged unauthorized uses of her image.

Hewitt’s lawyers later added Wellki LLC as a defendant, alleging that the firm created and distributed advertisements for the MarzSprays product.

Hewitt previously reached a settlement with Wellki and her attorneys dismissed the company as a defendant. She then reached a resolution with MarzSprays, according to the courtroom clerk for Judge Marc Marmaro.

The judge had been scheduled to begin hearing testimony in the trial of Hewitt’s lawsuit against MarzSprays on Tuesday.

No terms of the settlement were divulged.

Hewitt’s lawsuit alleged that despite promises by MarzSprays in March 2014 to stop using a  photograph of her on its website — made after the company received a letter from her attorney — a spam email was subsequently found showing the company continued to use her image in ads with such captions as “As Seen With Jennifer Love Hewitt.”

“From as early as the fall of 2012 to the spring of 2014, Marz used Hewitt’s name and image to promote and advertise its line of oral sprays,” the actress’ lawyers stated in their court papers. “Marz’s misappropriation of Hewitt’s name and likeness was both commercial in nature and intended for Marz’s commercial advantage.”

Hewitt typically makes “north of $1 million” for commercial endorsement deals, according to her attorneys’ court papers.

Hewitt, 36, began her acting career as a child and has appeared in the television series “Party of Five” and “Ghost Whisperer,” as well as such films as “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and its sequel.

— Wire reports