Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mk3v2k3r0o

The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.

Brett Ratner, who also directed the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, can be seen sitting on a sofa beside the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and two women whose identities have been obscured.

When the images were taken remains unclear, though they appear to have been taken in the same location as photos of Ratner and Epstein alongside the late French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel that were released in December.

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Kevlar21@piefed.social · 97 pts · 200d (3 replies)

I don’t think “Woman” is the right word.

RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Megyn Kelly: They are pre-women. What's wrong with that??

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 200d

Barely legal, some would say

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 200d

My exact thought. The search history of the author of this article should be checked out.

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Fun how they just tack on the name Brunel without the added context of who he was.

Brunel was Epstein's business partner. They owned MC2 modeling together. Epstein was the hidden partner, thus E=MC2. That right there is just another reason to hate these people.

Anyway, Brunel was the sort of guy who always had some date rape drugs on hand, and used them constantly.

As a note, Trump owned Trump Model Management, and hosted his own underage sex parties with random celebrities invited. But none of these parties had music.

There's a clip of Luther Campbell talking about how he noped the fuck out of a Trump party at Mar a Lago because he thought the girls were too young.

For those who don't know Luther Campbell is also known as Uncle Luke, in a song titled "Me So Horny" he claimed to be a dog in heat and a freak without a leash.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 200d

Thankfully turns out he had a leash that ended before statuatory rape. Good dog.

myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 53 pts · 200d (5 replies)

He is cuddling Melanie in that picture. Narrow head, pin straight hair and wearing the exact same outfit that Melanie is wearing in other photos from there. It’s her.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 200d (3 replies)

Melanie who? Sorry I'm not fully informed on everything "Epstein".

blackbelt352@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 200d (2 replies)

Probably autocorrect going from Melania to Melanie.

Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 200d (1 reply)
blackbelt352@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 200d

I stand corrected, thanks for the context!

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 200d

I think this might be her, in fact. Good eyes.

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 200d (6 replies)

I liked Rush Hour as a kid. At this point the only things I loved that aren't produced by pedophiles are the things I turned to in teen rebellion...

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 200d

There weren't really a whole lot of great comedies post-Holocaust.

It took a long while for Broadway to recover from AIDS.

I guess certain types of art attracts certain types of artists.

lofuw@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 200d (4 replies)

I'm actually pretty vindicated.

It's nice to see the pop-culture drivel that most people went gaga over turn out to be made by pedophile scumbags.

reev@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 200d (1 reply)

"I'm glad pedophiles made the popular content", what a weird take.

qarbone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d

"I COULD TELL IT WAS PRODUCED BY PEDOPHILES! Sat astride my High Horse, my Justice Senses prevented me from finding joy in the things that most people enjoyed, making me the victor!"

jve@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d (1 reply)

What’s nice about it?

LordMayor@piefed.social · 5 pts · 200d

Probably, the feeling of superiority they get from calling pop culture “drivel”.

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 200d

Little girls. Tiny fucking babies. So tired of this pedo facist normalizing media.

JayK117@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 200d

Correct title: ... pictured groping a minor...

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 200d

Woman? You mean child???

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Starting to wonder if people are doing pedophilia just for the kickbacks at this point? Does the Trump family ever even accidentally do something not completely dispicable?

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 200d

Do you know who was literally Epstein's neighbor, and in the book?

Bill Cosby. And now we see Andrew, and this guy, and it's just like...how many famous sleazeballs can you hang around before people stop believing that you, too, are not a famous sleazeball.

Like, alright, we all got like one or two friends that are total dicks, and we recognize that. We don't hang out with them intentionally but we're civil when they are part of the group.

But If the majority of your friends are total dicks...it's highly unlikely that you aren't a dick, too.

It's true for pedophiles, too, I think.

Minimac@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 200d

I feel sick to my stomach 🤢

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d

Absolutely zero surprise

Innerworld@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d

The lack of restraint is absurd.

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d

If thats a woman she was just recently so dubbed at the time

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
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