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bunny planet

(10,884 posts)
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 01:23 PM 2 hrs ago

This seems relevant

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

“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 undated 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.”

Things that make you go hmmmm…. Everybody’s talking about the sensational and probably false stuff released, probably to obfuscate and confuse and cast doubt on the real stories buried within all the mounds of paperwork. Melania was paid an exorbitant sum for this doc about her, seems like a quid pro quo to me. Somebody in the news industry should highlight this little nugget. The director of Melania is in the Epstein files photos palling around with Brunel, the French sex trafficker and associate of Epstein who also died mysteriously in his jail cell by ‘suicide’. I would hate for this to come out and be emphasized right in time for the big premiere of Melania next week. We don’t want to embarrass the FLOTUS with this inconvenient direct connection to the Epstein files and his criminal enterprise do we.
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