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Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape charge in Massachusetts
Influencer Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, pleaded not guilty to charges arising from an alleged assault in 2025. He was granted $10,000 bail with restrictions on contacting or posting about his accuser.
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Social media influencer Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, pleaded not guilty on Thursday, 22 October, to criminal charges including rape in Massachusetts, BBC News reported. The 20-year-old was granted $10,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport and neither contact nor post about his accuser.
Peters was charged in September with felony rape, drugging an individual for sexual intercourse and procuring alcohol for a person under 21. The charges concern an alleged assault on a 17-year-old girl at his family’s home in Chatham in 2025. He denies the allegations and says the encounter was consensual.
Allegations and next hearing
According to CBS News, the girl told police that Peters arranged an Uber to take her to the home on 23 May 2025. She alleged that they drank alcohol while filming a livestream before he raped her.
CBS reported that the officer who took her statement believed she could not consent because of her age and the degree of intoxication visible in the livestream. That assessment forms part of the reported police account, not a finding of guilt.
The next hearing is scheduled for 24 November, when a judge will determine whether there is sufficient evidence for the case to proceed.
Online profile and separate legal cases
Peters has more than a million followers on TikTok and Instagram. His content promotes “looksmaxxing”, a trend centred on efforts by young men to make themselves more physically attractive. He has spoken about hitting his face and jaw with a hammer and using steroids, injections and other drugs to alter his appearance.
In a separate Florida case earlier this year, Peters was charged after filming himself firing at what appeared to be a dead alligator. He pleaded no contest to unlawfully discharging a firearm in public.
He was also arrested in March on suspicion of battery over allegations that he instigated a fight between two women. Authorities said in July that they did not intend to bring charges in that matter.
Who's who
Braden Peters
Social media influencer known as Clavicular; defendant who denies the allegations
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