The “looksmaxxing” livestreamer Braden Peters, better known by his stage name Clavicular, was arraigned Thursday morning in Massachusetts on charges that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Cape Cod home.
A social media personality known for promoting extreme devotion to male beauty, Peters, 20, is accused of giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, Massachusetts, in May 2025.
Peters has denied the allegations through his lawyers, saying the sexual encounter was consensual. He appeared in court in Orleans for his arraignment, where a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. Bail was set at $10,000, with the condition that he not contact the victim or post about her on social media and that he surrender his passport. He was expected to post that bail after the court hearing.
Prosecutors did not object to Peters being released on bail, noting that he had flown in from California.
Peters arrived at the courthouse walking a barking dog on a leash. He spoke only to the dog as he entered the courthouse and ignored reporters’ questions.
Wearing glasses and a dark suit and tie, Peters maintained a neutral facial expression during his court appearance and said little other than to reply, “Yes, your honor” when the judge asked if he understood that if he commits another crime while out on bail he could be held without bail for up to 90 days.
Peters is scheduled to return to court for a probable cause hearing on Nov. 24.
The Massachusetts case is the latest legal challenge for Peters, who has a million followers on Instagram, and whose hourslong livestreams feature him rating people’s looks and talking about methods of getting better looking that include surgery and drug use.
Earlier this year, he was charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida after police said he provoked a fight between two women then posted it online. That charge was later dropped. In a separate Florida case this year, he was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to a charge that he fired a gun in public.
The woman who accused Peters of rape told police he had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” videos. She said that during her visit to a Peters family home, he gave her two or three shots of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her while she was drunk. She told police that when she woke up the next morning, Peters was raping her.
The woman also described the alleged assault in a civil lawsuit she filed in Florida in April. In that lawsuit, she also accused Peters of injecting her with a fat-dissolving substance during a livestream without her consent.
Peters’ attorneys called the lawsuit a “publicity grab.”
The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they consent to being identified publicly.
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