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/
llmart
(17,302 posts)seem to commit suicide. Hmmm.....
Irish_Dem
(79,371 posts)llmart
(17,302 posts)We know Trump is and most likely Epstein.
Irish_Dem
(79,371 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,086 posts)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)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.
2naSalit
(99,705 posts)Hmm.
twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,371 posts)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)Probably because he was someone she "felt comfortable with and trusted".
Irish_Dem
(79,371 posts)The Epstein sex ring takes care of each other out of fear or trust.
travelingthrulife
(4,305 posts)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)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)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)He trafficked, raped and sexually abused teen girls for years.
He was A FRIEND OF EPSTEINs! He had modeling agencies near Epsteins 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)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.