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BumRushDaShow

(165,156 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:08 AM Sunday

Melania Trump documentary director Brett Ratner is in the Epstein files

Source: USA Today

Updated Dec. 20, 2025, 7:37 p.m. ET


"Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner, who is helming First Lady Melania Trump's upcoming documentary, is in a photo in the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department.

An undated photo shows the Florida-native filmmaker posing with a shirtless Jean-Luc Brunel, the late French modeling agent and longtime Epstein associate.

Brunel died by suicide in 2022 in his jail cell while facing charges in France of raping a minor and supplying minors to the disgraced financier. The photo of Ratner and Brunel did not include date, location or context.

USA TODAY has reached out to Ratner's representative and his production company, RatPac Entertainment, for comment.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2025/12/20/brett-ratner-photo-epstein-files-jean-luc-brunel/87864369007/

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Melania Trump documentary director Brett Ratner is in the Epstein files (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
A lot of people connected to Trump Epstein cabal... llmart Sunday #1
It is so odd, because narcissists rarely commit suicide. Irish_Dem Sunday #2
We don't know that these people were narcissists. llmart Sunday #3
Anyone raping children is a narcissist or has those traits. Irish_Dem Sunday #4
Well, I don't think Epstein committed suicide for one damn minute TexasBushwhacker Sunday #15
I agree. Plus Epstein had video tapes of Trump I am sure. Irish_Dem Sunday #16
While in custody... 2naSalit Sunday #9
Porn channel? twodogsbarking Sunday #5
Did he help Epstein make porn videos and blackmail videos? Irish_Dem Sunday #6
"Now she blatantly advertises this fact by her choice of directors today." BumRushDaShow Sunday #7
Or he can blackmail her. So she is throwing some jobs his way. Irish_Dem Sunday #8
I think both Melania and Ivanna were part of it. travelingthrulife Sunday #10
Yes I agree. Irish_Dem Sunday #11
This Puts a Weird Spin on the Stormy Daniels Case DrFunkenstein Sunday #12
Jean-Luc Brunel Is the French Epstein Grins Sunday #13
Coincidence? MangoPulpinaSuit Sunday #14
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #17

llmart

(17,302 posts)
3. We don't know that these people were narcissists.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:15 AM
Sunday

We know Trump is and most likely Epstein.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,086 posts)
15. Well, I don't think Epstein committed suicide for one damn minute
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:42 PM
Sunday

Sure, he was going to prison, but he was expecting his buddy to get him out. Look what Trump did for Ghislane Maxwell.

Irish_Dem

(79,371 posts)
16. I agree. Plus Epstein had video tapes of Trump I am sure.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:17 PM
Sunday

Epstein thought that was his insurance policy.

Didn't work out that way.

I wonder who has the video tapes now.
Or if they have been destroyed.

Irish_Dem

(79,371 posts)
6. Did he help Epstein make porn videos and blackmail videos?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:40 AM
Sunday

And melania is connected in some way?

We know Melania was making porn videos and pictures. I thought it was advertising for the Epstein sex ring.

Now she blatantly advertises this fact by her choice of directors today.

BumRushDaShow

(165,156 posts)
7. "Now she blatantly advertises this fact by her choice of directors today."
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:58 AM
Sunday

Probably because he was someone she "felt comfortable with and trusted".

Irish_Dem

(79,371 posts)
8. Or he can blackmail her. So she is throwing some jobs his way.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:07 AM
Sunday

The Epstein sex ring takes care of each other out of fear or trust.

travelingthrulife

(4,305 posts)
10. I think both Melania and Ivanna were part of it.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:55 AM
Sunday

Melania came up through the Epstein hooker ranks. Ivanna, ant least once, accompanied Maxwell when they were selecting victims. She was about to testify when she fell down the stairs I believe.

Irish_Dem

(79,371 posts)
11. Yes I agree.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:56 AM
Sunday

What is Ivanka's part of it?

ETA: Ivanna knew exactly what Trump was.
She stated that he had raped her after he was angry at a failed hair transplant.

DrFunkenstein

(8,897 posts)
12. This Puts a Weird Spin on the Stormy Daniels Case
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:10 AM
Sunday

Which now seems relatively banal. And here we thought that Melania would have been upset by Trump having relations with a porn star. But consenting adults seems way beyond the bar that Melania finds acceptable. Six women accused her documentarian in 2017, long before she agreed to "a private, unfiltered look" by Ratner into her life through the production company, Muse Films, that she set up for herself.

No wonder Jeff Bezos paid $40 million for it. He will see a healthy return on his investment.

Bezos, by the way, invited Ghislaine Maxwell to an exclusive "Campfire" retreat he hosted in 2018 (long after he was attending dinner parties with Epstein, already a registered sex offender).

Grins

(9,214 posts)
13. Jean-Luc Brunel Is the French Epstein
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:31 AM
Sunday

He trafficked, raped and sexually abused teen girls for years.

He was A FRIEND OF EPSTEIN’s! He had “modeling agencies” near Epstein’s modeling agency in both NYC and Miami, with the one in Miami - initially financed BY EPSTEIN!

Both trafficked girls between their modeling agencies front for years.

MangoPulpinaSuit

(17 posts)
14. Coincidence?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:51 AM
Sunday

trump just recently demanded another Rush Hour sequal from Keith Ellison. It seemed to come out of nowhere.

In a shocking twist, Ratner (the director) and Chris Tucker (co-lead actor), of Rush Hour, are in the Ep files.

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