Suit Alleges Abuse At Cape Residence By ‘Looksmaxxing’ Influencer; ‘Clavicular’ Has Ties To Chatham

CHATHAM – Details within a lawsuit filed in Florida last month against the popular internet livestreamer “Clavicular” have revealed the influencer’s connection to the Lower Cape.

 Braden Eric Peters — known as “Clavicular,” who has popularized the “looksmaxxing” movement of intensely augmenting one’s physical appearance to increase attractiveness — is accused in the lawsuit of serving an excessive amount of alcohol to a minor and having non-consensual sex with her at his parents’ house on Cape Cod. 

 While the lawsuit doesn’t specify the location beyond Cape Cod, evidence points to that house being a residence in Chatham.

 Peters, 20, has more than two million followers across various social media platforms. He has been profiled by The New York Times, GQ and The Atlantic in recent months. Peters didn’t invent looksmaxxing, but his ascent has made him the online culture’s figurehead. Injecting testosterone ordered through the mail as a young teenager, tapping himself with a hammer to shape his cheekbones and using crystal meth to keep lean were just some of the seeds of Peters’ looksmaxxing genesis, as relayed by those profiles. According to his LinkedIn profile, he once worked as a bouncer at The Chatham Squire.

 The complaint, filed by Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza in Miami-Dade County on April 28, alleges Peters and Mendoza were texting last May while he was on Cape Cod and she was in Massachusetts. Peters had previously paid Mendoza, at that point 17 years old, $1,000 to film videos — with the intention of being “the female face for ‘looksmaxxing,’” the complaint said.

 Peters arranged for an Uber to bring Mendoza to the Cape, where the two met for the first time at his parents’ home. Peters’ grandmother and mother were present and “excessive amounts of alcohol were being served,” the lawsuit alleges. 

 “Peters then escorted Mendoza to his bedroom, where a computer was set up for livestreaming,” the complaint said. “Inside the bedroom, Peters served Mendoza multiple servings of vodka. Mendoza became inebriated and visibly intoxicated.”

 Peters allegedly proceeded to have non-consensual sex with Mendoza multiple times, according to the complaint.

 “At this point, Mendoza did not know about Peters’ bragging about ‘slaying’ girls and having one-night stands,” the complaint said. “Peters refers to this frequently as a ‘pump and dump.’”

 A different document filed as part of the lawsuit identifies Peters’ mother as Lauren. Other reports have named Peters’ father as Kenneth. It’s also been reported that Peters grew up in Hoboken, N.J. According to town assessing department data, a home on Tisquantum Lane in Chatham, valued at more than $2.4 million, is owned by a Kenneth Peters with a Hoboken mailing address.

 The younger Peters’ tie to Chatham was no mystery beforehand, nor was it trying to be. An arrest warrant for a misdemeanor battery charge issued in Osceola County, Fla. in March used that Chatham property for Peters’ home address. On LinkedIn, Peters’ profile lists experience working security at The Chatham Squire from 2024 to 2025. The recent accusations of wrongdoing in town, though, have propelled the Chatham link into prominence. 

The allegations levied by Mendoza — an online influencer herself by the name of “Alorah Ziva” with hundreds of thousands of followers — regarding what occurred on the Cape serve as background information within the civil complaint. Mendoza is seeking damages of more than $100,000 on counts of battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, and unauthorized publication of name and likeness on the basis of alleged events that occurred in Florida several months after the meeting on the Cape.

Last November while out with friends in Miami, the complaint said, Mendoza ran into Peters and was invited to his place for a livestreaming session, during which he’s accused of injecting Aqualyx, a fat-melting solution, into Mendoza’s cheeks. The complaint also raises the possibility that the injection contained methamphetamine. Mendoza’s cheek became perforated, the document alleges.

After the injection, which was livestreamed, Mendoza continued to believe Peters was helping her with her online presence. He allegedly paid bouncers to let Mendoza into bars and bought alcohol for her. But earlier this year, Mendoza lost a sponsorship she had for an online trading platform after Peters, the complaint said, began a campaign to discredit her.

In response to an inquiry from The Chronicle, Peters’ attorney, Jeffrey Neiman, wrote via email he would “touch base” but did not provide further comment by deadline.      

In a different case, Peters accepted a plea agreement earlier in May for the misdemeanor charge of unlawfully discharging a firearm in apparent connection with a March livestream during which a group including Peters fired gunshots from an airboat in the Everglades near Miami. The arrest warrant for that charge, issued in Miami-Dade County on April 28, listed Peters’ Chatham address as well.