New Details Emerge in Alleged Rape Case Linked to Clavicular at Grandmother’s Mansion

In the year since “looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular became a mainstream internet figure, the streamer has appeared almost impossible to push out of the spotlight.

The 20-year-old personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, has faced intense online criticism over a string of public stunts. He has reportedly been removed from a nightclub, arrested twice within a year and hospitalized in April after a suspected overdose. Yet he has continued to command attention across social media.

His contentious views on women, relationships and masculinity have helped him build a combined following of one million people on TikTok and Instagram. Peters has claimed that he pursued a more “masculine” appearance by hitting his face with a hammer and using testosterone from a young age.

Now, however, his online rise could face a major setback. According to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, Peters has been charged in Massachusetts with rape and drugging. He has denied the allegations.

A criminal complaint filed by prosecutors on September 8 charges Peters with rape, drugging someone for the purpose of sexual intercourse and providing liquor to a person under 21.

The charges relate to an alleged incident on May 23, 2025, at his grandmother’s $1.7 million home on Cape Cod.

Peters is due to be arraigned on October 14.

Massachusetts law prohibits the alleged victim’s name from appearing in the complaint. The Daily Mail also does not identify alleged rape victims unless they choose to speak publicly.

The complaint states that Peters, who was 19 at the time, allegedly invited the unnamed teenager to his family’s home in Chatham to “stream videos online.” According to her account, his mother and grandmother were at the residence.

When she arrived that evening, Peters was reportedly in his bedroom livestreaming on Twitch.

She told prosecutors that Peters knew she was 17 but allegedly asked her to claim during the broadcast that she was 18.

She also alleged that he instructed her to pretend the alcohol she was drinking was water, so the livestream would not violate Twitch’s rules on alcohol consumption.

The teenager said she began feeling “drunk” after consuming “two, three shots” of vodka and refused when alcohol was allegedly offered to her again.

After the stream ended, she said she was “really drunk” and had sex with Peters. She fell asleep in his bed and alleged that she woke the next morning to find Peters “having sex with [her].” She said she did not tell him to stop because the act was already underway, according to the complaint.

She described being “in shock” and “in fear” during the alleged encounter. The woman told prosecutors that she did not verbally consent to sex on either occasion.

Peters later arranged an Uber to take her to her grandparents’ home. She said she did not see him again for roughly six months after the alleged incident.

The teenager said she did not tell anyone about what happened at the time and did not undergo a sexual assault forensic examination. She later disclosed the alleged incident to a friend.

If convicted of rape, Peters could receive a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and would be required to register as a sex offender.

The timeline described in the criminal complaint appears to correspond with allegations in a civil lawsuit filed April 28, 2026, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The lawsuit accuses Peters of battery and causing emotional distress.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Peters’ on-off publicist Mitchell Jackson denied all allegations, noting that the woman did not accuse Peters of sexual battery in her initial civil lawsuit filed in April. 

‘She files a lawsuit and doesn’t include sexual assault as a count. Then she amends it and adds it a couple of months later,’ the statement read. 

‘Clav then filed a motion to dismiss fighting the civil lawsuit because letter/text messages show she knew what was happening with the injections and he refused to pay money. She and her lawyer then go to police.’

The woman later filed an amended complaint on June 17, which included allegations of sexual battery. Attorneys for Peters filed a motion to dismiss the civil complaint in Miami-Dade County on July 6. No hearing for the lawsuit is scheduled. 

When approached by the Daily Mail for comment, his mother Lauren Peters said she did not ‘know anything about’ her son’s criminal charges of rape and drugging.

As for the alleged victim, her grandfather described her as a ‘nice girl’ but said he did not ‘know much about’ her relationship with Peters. 

In the civil complaint previously obtained by the Daily Mail, the woman claimed that in 2025, when she was 17, she was paid $1,000 by Peters to film videos and was told by Peters that he wanted her to be the ‘female face for looksmaxxing.’

In addition to the alleged incident that occurred at Peters’ family home in Massachusetts, she also cited a livestream posted on his Kick channel in November 2025.

The lawsuit stated that Peters allegedly injected her during the livestream with Aqualyx – an ‘unapproved drug’ intended to ‘melt fat on her cheeks as part of his promise to help her with her online presence through looksmaxxing.’

The woman said she believed the injection contained ‘methamphetamine or another undisclosed substance,’ and she allegedly experienced ‘severe emotional distress, trauma, humiliation, nightmares, fear, panic, and mental anguish’ as a result of the injections.

Additionally, the civil complaint noted that the livestream remains available to the public.

In true Clavicular fashion, it didn’t take long for the streamer himself to address the recent charges to his 182,300 followers on X. Peters claimed the woman was ‘trying to get [his] attention’ by filing a lawsuit against him, adding in a post: ‘Seriously… really petty of you.’

In a follow-up post, Peters also wrote: ‘Happens to all successful young men, people try to come for your money. Greed is evil.’

The Daily Mail has contacted the woman’s attorneys for comment. 

In addition to his controversial ‘looksmaxxing’ techniques – such as taking high doses of synthetic testosterone, which he claims made him infertile – Peters has previously raised eyebrows for his thoughts on women and dating.

Dating, he says, is a distraction from his true ambition of ‘ascending,’ looksmaxxing slang for becoming more handsome. He also doles out controversial dating advice via his $49 looksmaxxing academy Clavicular’s Clan, Rolling Stone reported earlier this year.

For example, when guiding men on how to approach women on a dancefloor, Peters says: ‘No resistance? Inch closer until your erection is her problem.’ Meanwhile, college campuses are, in his eyes, ‘the most target-rich environment’ with ‘dozens of slayables in a five-minute radius.’

Peters also shared on a podcast in February 2026 that he lost his virginity at 16, but said he doesn’t know if he has ever been in love.

When the Daily Mail previously spoke to Peters’ former high school classmates from Seton Hall Preparatory School, an all-boys Catholic school in West Orange, New Jersey, they agreed that Peters ‘mostly kept to himself’ and did not date in high school.

Back then, his peers said, Peters had earned a reputation as being the ‘reserved,’ ‘closed off’ and ‘strange’ loner. One former classmate, who had asked not to be named, described Peters as ‘a little strange’ and ‘very quiet’ during the few interactions they had.

‘He didn’t have any long-term relationships in high school,’ one classmate, Aryan K, told the Daily Mail at the time. ‘I don’t think he’ll ever be able to actually hold a wife or have the same girl for too long.’

Peters was most recently in a relationship with influencer Lily Snyder. He appeared to confirm their split during an interview with the TMZ Podcast on September 16. The pair previously called it quits in a July livestream after three months of dating.