India, Feb. 1 -- Hollywood director Brett Ratner, the director of Melania, a documentary on First Lady Melania Trump, has surfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein files released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Publicly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein Transparency Act include photographs of Ratner with Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel, according to PEOPLE.

Brunel, a controversial French modeling agent, was arrested in Paris for raping a minor.

Ratner has mentions in several email exchanges between Epstein and his associates as well.

Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer who rose to prominence in Hollywood during the late 1990s and 2000s. He is known for directing blockbuster films such as the Rush Hour series, X...