http://privacy.uslegal.com/what-constitutes-a-violation/use-of-name-or-likeness/
May be moot now anyway. Seems Ablene waited too long to file. Chance the judge may reconsider?
I don't know how anyone, except those she told about it, would have known she was connected in any way, had she not filed the complaint.
I always assumed the characters were based, somewhat, on maids that either the author, or someone she knows, had known.