NASSAU, Bahamas?A Bahamas judge dismissed charges Monday against two alleged extortionists, halting a planned retrial in a case involving the death of Hollywood star John Travolta's son, court sources said.

Supreme Court Senior Justice Jon Isaacs made the ruling following Travolta's decision not to pursue the matter further. The US actor maintained that memories of the ordeal were too painful to relive.

Travolta and his family were vacationing at their oceanfront home at Old Bahama Bay, on Grand Bahama Island in January 2009 when 16-year-old Jett, the actor's only son, suffered a seizure and died.

Travolta, a two-time Oscar-nominee who starred in the hit films "Saturday Night Fever" and "Pulp Fiction," had earlier testified that parliament member Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne attempted to extort money from him following Jett's death.

Lightbourne and Bridgewater were accused of attempting to extort $25 million from Travolta by implicating him in his son's death unless he paid up.

According to police reports, Bridgewater and Lightbourne allegedly threatened to release a refusal to transport document, which the actor said he signed because he initially did not want his son treated at a local hospital?if Travolta did not pay.

The alleged document is usually signed by a party when refusing, for example, emergency medical services from trained personnel.

Previous court proceedings ended in a mistrial in October 2009 after a leak of confidential information.

During the course of the trial it was revealed that Travolta's American attorney, Michael McDermott, met with both the accused on more than one occasion and those meetings were videotaped by the police.

In his testimony McDermott told the court that he was acting under the direction of the Royal Bahamas Police Force when he participated in a sting operation targeting Lightbourne and Bridgewater.

After Monday's announcement that the trial would be halted, Bridgewater said it marked the conclusion of what she described as her "greatest nightmare" and maintained her "complete, absolute, and 100 percent innocence."

Lightbourne's attorney Carlson Shurland said he would have preferred that the charges be totally dismissed and a verdict of not guilty be entered, but was relieved to see the matter put behind them.