A Los Angeles judge has ruled that the child molestation case brought about by choreographer Wade Robson and another alleged victim, James Safechuck, against Michael Jackson's estate should be dismissed after too much time had passed since the late singer's death.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff dismissed the case when he ruled that the two men, who filed in 2013, had waited too long after the singer's death in 2009 to make a legal claim. Legally, an alleged victim has one year to file.

Robson, who was a key witness in Jackson's acquittal in 2005, has since changed his story and said that Jackson first molested him when he was seven years old at the Neverland Ranch, as his sister slept in a separate bed. The choreographer, who has designed dances for Britney Spears and 'N Sync, alleges he was molested by the icon for eight years, beginning in 1990. Robson is now claiming that he came forward after a breakthrough in therapy, which he was going to following a nervous breakdown in 2011.

The Jackson estate has denied all of Robson and Safechuck's allegations of abuse.