Vivid’s check must have cleared the bank.

from www.tmz.com – Brittney Jones — the woman who insists she slept with Ashton Kutcher — has predictably officially dropped her lawsuit against Vivid Entertainment … giving the porn giants the green light to peddle her sex tape.

Jones is even trying to play the Kim Kardashian Kard — saying, “If Kim can survive and in fact do even better after a sex tape scandal, I guess I can, too.”

Shoot for the stars!

As for Mr. Kutcher — dude scored a minor victory in the whole sex tape controversy … because after several rounds of legal exchanges … a rep for Vivid tells us, “We decided not to use the A-lister’s actual name in connection with the sex tape.”