Highlights
- Streamer Clavicular, 20, faces rape and drugging charges filed in a Massachusetts courthouse on Sept. 8.
- The charges stem from an alleged May 2025 incident in Cape Cod and carry a maximum sentence of 20 years.
- Peters denies the claims; his attorney says the allegations ‘remain unproven’ and are disputed by him.
Braden Peters, the 20-year-old streamer known to more than a million followers as Clavicular, is facing a rape charge in Massachusetts.
Prosecutors in a Cape Cod courthouse filed the charge on Sept. 8. It’s one of three counts: rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, and providing alcohol to someone under 21. The alleged incident happened on May 23, 2025. Peters is due to be arraigned Oct. 14.
A conviction on the rape count alone could carry up to twenty years in prison.
The criminal filing doesn’t name a victim. But the timeline matches a civil lawsuit filed in April in Florida by 18-year-old Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, known online as Alorah Ziva. Her suit alleges Peters brought her to Cape Cod, gave her alcohol until she was intoxicated, and had sex with her without her consent. She says she woke up the next morning to him doing it again.
Massachusetts sets the age of consent at 16, so the charges aren’t statutory. The alcohol count exists because Mendoza was under 21.
Mendoza’s suit also alleges Peters injected her with Aqualyx, an FDA-unapproved fat-dissolving substance, on a livestream, without her consent.
Peters’ representative, Mitchell Jackson, disputed the criminal case when it surfaced. He told NBC News: “Braden Peters has not been physically served. As usual, The Bulwark is exaggerating.”
On the civil suit, Peters’ attorney at the time, Steve Kramer, said his client denies the allegations and disputes how the incident has been described. “These are allegations only and remain unproven,” Kramer said.
Peters addressed Mendoza’s lawsuit himself on X, framing it as an attempt to get his attention before adding: “Seriously… really petty of you.” In a separate post referencing her finances, he wrote that people should ask “how about dont finance cars you cant afford.”
This isn’t Peters’ only brush with the law this year. In April, he was charged with unlawfully discharging a firearm after footage surfaced of him shooting a dead alligator in the Florida Everglades on a livestream. His attorney at the time said the group was following a licensed airboat guide’s instructions and that “no animals or people were harmed.” Peters pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months’ probation and 20 hours of community service.
He was also hospitalized that same month after appearing to overdose during a livestream. After his release, he posted on X: “Just got home, that was brutal.”
Peters built his online following through “looksmaxxing,” a movement focused on maximizing facial attractiveness through injections and, in some cases, breaking and resetting facial bones. None of that history determines guilt in the Massachusetts case. What’s confirmed right now is a rape charge, an Oct. 14 arraignment, and a defense team that says the case is being overstated before Peters has even been formally served.
