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Miles Archer

(23,299 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 10:26 AM Dec 2025

Director of the "Melania Documentary" was ousted from Hollywood for sexual misconduct & is IN PHOTOS IN THE JEFFY FILES.

Brett Ratner, the director of “Melania,” the new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, was spotted in the Justice Department’s Friday release of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair reported late Friday.

Among the thousands of files released by the DOJ Friday, internet sleuths were quick to identify Ratner in an updated photograph with a shirtless man that appears to be Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout and owner of the international modeling agency MC2 Model Management, which has considerable financial backing from Epstein.

Brunel died by apparent suicide in 2022 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, as did Epstein in 2019.

Ratner made his directorial debut in the 1990s with the release of “Money Talks,” and went on to direct the popular “Rush Hour” films before being ousted from Hollywood in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations. While he moved to Israel in 2023, Ratner is now set to direct “Rush Hour 4” after the project was greenlit by Paramount, and after President Donald Trump “lobbied” for the studio to take up Ratner’s project.

https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674816736/

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Director of the "Melania Documentary" was ousted from Hollywood for sexual misconduct & is IN PHOTOS IN THE JEFFY FILES. (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 2025 OP
WOW...... Lovie777 Dec 2025 #1
Trump "lobbied" for the studio to take up Ratner's project UpInArms Dec 2025 #2
Not lobbied, bullied Walleye Dec 2025 #4
I would think Quid Pro Quo genxlib Dec 2025 #6
Or, "I'll get you big bucks for this vanity project Tanuki Dec 2025 #8
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Dec 2025 #3
These jail suicides. What a weird thing, right? Easterncedar Dec 2025 #5
Trump's Pedo buddies. maliaSmith Dec 2025 #7
Didn't he recently prop this guy up to do another Rush Hour film? berniesandersmittens Dec 2025 #9

Lovie777

(22,997 posts)
1. WOW......
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 10:32 AM
Dec 2025

shithole and family along with the Republican Party are in your face daring us…..

WTF will we do?

genxlib

(6,136 posts)
6. I would think Quid Pro Quo
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:26 AM
Dec 2025

You make a movie about Melania and I will get your next feature film greenlit.

Tanuki

(16,448 posts)
8. Or, "I'll get you big bucks for this vanity project
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:49 PM
Dec 2025

and you'll keep your mouth shut about everything you know about my depraved activites with Epstein."

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