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BumRushDaShow

(165,874 posts) Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:08 AM Dec 21

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 Dec 21 OP

A lot of people connected to Trump Epstein cabal... llmart Dec 21 #1

It is so odd, because narcissists rarely commit suicide. Irish_Dem Dec 21 #2

We don't know that these people were narcissists. llmart Dec 21 #3

Anyone raping children is a narcissist or has those traits. Irish_Dem Dec 21 #4

Well, I don't think Epstein committed suicide for one damn minute TexasBushwhacker Dec 21 #15

I agree. Plus Epstein had video tapes of Trump I am sure. Irish_Dem Dec 21 #16

While in custody... 2naSalit Dec 21 #9

Porn channel? twodogsbarking Dec 21 #5

Did he help Epstein make porn videos and blackmail videos? Irish_Dem Dec 21 #6

"Now she blatantly advertises this fact by her choice of directors today." BumRushDaShow Dec 21 #7

Or he can blackmail her. So she is throwing some jobs his way. Irish_Dem Dec 21 #8

I think both Melania and Ivanna were part of it. travelingthrulife Dec 21 #10

Yes I agree. Irish_Dem Dec 21 #11

This Puts a Weird Spin on the Stormy Daniels Case DrFunkenstein Dec 21 #12

Jean-Luc Brunel Is the French Epstein Grins Dec 21 #13

Coincidence? MangoPulpinaSuit Dec 21 #14

Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Dec 21 #17

llmart

(17,327 posts)

1. A lot of people connected to Trump Epstein cabal...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:34 AM

Dec 21

seem to commit suicide. Hmmm.....

Irish_Dem

(79,899 posts)

2. It is so odd, because narcissists rarely commit suicide.

Reply to llmart (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:01 AM

Dec 21

llmart

(17,327 posts)

3. We don't know that these people were narcissists.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:15 AM

Dec 21

We know Trump is and most likely Epstein.

Irish_Dem

(79,899 posts)

4. Anyone raping children is a narcissist or has those traits.

Reply to llmart (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:24 AM

Dec 21

TexasBushwhacker

(21,095 posts)

15. Well, I don't think Epstein committed suicide for one damn minute

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:42 PM

Dec 21

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

(79,899 posts)

16. I agree. Plus Epstein had video tapes of Trump I am sure.

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #15)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:17 PM

Dec 21

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

(100,083 posts)

9. While in custody...

Reply to llmart (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:19 AM

Dec 21

Hmm.

twodogsbarking

(17,591 posts)

5. Porn channel?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:29 AM

Dec 21

Irish_Dem

(79,899 posts)

6. Did he help Epstein make porn videos and blackmail videos?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:40 AM

Dec 21

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

(165,874 posts)

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

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:58 AM

Dec 21

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

Irish_Dem

(79,899 posts)

8. Or he can blackmail her. So she is throwing some jobs his way.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:07 AM

Dec 21

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

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)

10. I think both Melania and Ivanna were part of it.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:55 AM

Dec 21

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

(79,899 posts)

11. Yes I agree.

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #10)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:56 AM

Dec 21

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

(8,899 posts)

12. This Puts a Weird Spin on the Stormy Daniels Case

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:10 AM

Dec 21

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

(9,246 posts)

13. Jean-Luc Brunel Is the French Epstein

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:31 AM

Dec 21

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?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:51 AM

Dec 21

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.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,026 posts)

17. Who is surprised by this?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:36 PM

Dec 21

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