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.

There is no indication of wrongdoing from the files. The BBC has contacted Ratner's representative for comment.

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[–] 66 points 9 months ago

"Girl" or maybe "young woman" as an alternative option.

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    They're gonna say she was a consenting adult, only redacted for privacy reasons because somehow now they fucking care about consent. Buch of freaking criminal pervs. I hope the majority of them end up in prison, but Pedo in chief is protecting them and has to go first

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Wasn't he also accused of sexual harassment by like 6 women?

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Cuddling women or molesting children?

    The "Department of Justice" is a fucking joke.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    "Cuddling", "woman"

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago
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    [–] 96 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 66 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 53 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Probably autocorrect going from Melania to Melanie.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Woman? You mean child???

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I feel sick to my stomach 🤢

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    The lack of restraint is absurd.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Absolutely zero surprise

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

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

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It’s an actual conspiracy. Conspiracy theory minded people must be going insane right now. On some level, I bet they never believed their theories or, at least, expected hard evidence that other people would believe. It must hurt them to not have special knowledge.

    I wonder if their theories will change to something less plausible than a cabal of rich white men trafficking in young women and girls.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Brunel also hanged himself?

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