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Sanchari Ghosh

Melania Trump’s movie was already in trouble, but with director Brett Ratner tied to Epstein documents, its box office fate is sealed

The documentary about Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States, is struggling at the box office. Reports from last week suggested that only one ticket was sold for its premiere at a popular VUE location, just before its release on Friday in the UK. The film has once again become the subject of a new controversy (this one undoubtedly more serious than the former) due to the latest developments in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

On Friday, the United States Department of Justice released over 3 million pages from the Jeffrey Epstein Files and other documents pertaining to his case, along with over 180,000 images and more than 2,000 videos that saw influential people being namedropped, pictured, and videographed. Among them, a hard-to-miss individual was Brett Ratner, who recently directed Melania, a documentary about Melania Trump, spotlighting the events in her life in the 20 days before her husband, Donald Trump, assumed office as President of the United States for a second term in 2025.

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