A California court has rejected a bid by Michael Jackson’s father to challenge the administration of his son’s lucrative estate.

Roman Polanski’s victim cannot ask for the 32-year-old sex case to be dismissed against the fugitive film director or affect the case, US prosecutors told a court.

US prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an appeal filed by Roman Polanski before his recent arrest in Switzerland, saying the issues he presented no longer apply.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has taken his bid to have a decades-old sex case thrown out to the US appeals court.