‘Clavicular’ Pleads Not Guilty To Chatham Rape Charge, Files Motion To Dismiss

ORLEANS – Braden Peters, also known as “Looksmaxxing” livestreamer Clavicular, pleaded not guilty to charges including rape during an arraignment Thursday at Orleans District Court.

Peters, 20, is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Chatham home in May 2025. He was brought up on charges of rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, and procuring liquor for a person under 21.

Peters — who traveled from California to answer the charges and entered the courthouse with a dog on a leash that barked at the assembled press outside — posted $10,000 cash bail, surrendered his passport and agreed to stay away from the victim and not post about her on social media. 

Attorneys David Meier and Melinda Thompson flanked Peters as he stood in the Orleans courtroom before Judge John Julian, who told him he could be held for up to 90 days if he commits another offense. 

A motion to dismiss all three counts on the basis of insufficient evidence to support the charges was subsequently filed after the not guilty plea.

“Braden Peters categorically denies these allegations,” Meier said in a statement. “As set forth in our memorandum to the Court, in May 2025, Mr. Peters was 19 years old, the complainant was 17 years old, and they were involved in a professional and personal relationship that continued for another year. At no time did the complainant report anything to the police — or to anyone — because there was nothing to report.”

According to a police report, Peters and the alleged victim had been texting prior to the alleged May 2025 encounter — she did paid “looksmaxxing” videos for him. After arriving at the Chatham residence (via a rideshare Peters ordered) and greeting Peters’ mother and grandmother, she was brought upstairs, where he was livestreaming, the woman told police.

Peters is accused of giving alcohol to the alleged victim and instructing her to lie about her age on the livestream. The woman told Chatham police she became very drunk during the encounter. 

She and Peters, then 19, later had sex. She woke up the next morning to Peters again having sex with her, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman told police she had not verbally consented the night prior nor that morning.

Concurrently, Peters is facing a civil lawsuit in Miami-Dade County submitted by the same person, in which he is accused of injecting a fat-melting solution into (and perforating) her cheek during another livestream months later.

“The fact that these allegations first arose in June 2026 when the complainant and her Florida attorney appeared together at the Chatham Police Department just days before filing an amended civil lawsuit seeking thousands of dollars from Mr. Peters speaks for itself,” Meier said in the statement.

A memorandum submitted to the court claims the woman “voluntarily and intentionally developed and maintained a personal relationship” with Peters.

According to the document, the alleged victim told Peters in a handwritten December 2025 letter, “‘Braden you have my loyalty 100 percent ... I admire the man you are.’” She additionally thanked him for providing her some income and a place to live, and she offered Peters “a ‘[b]ack massage’, a ‘spa day,’” and to cook for him, the memorandum claims.

Later in December, according to the document, she texted Peters, “I want you ngl [not gonna lie]” and “[w]e could keep everything private too like no social media.”

By early 2026, Peters had ceased to promote and support the woman’s social media presence, the memorandum alleges, and her sponsorship income from social media decreased, until finally ending in April, the same month the civil lawsuit was filed in Florida.

The court filing further accuses the victim of changing her timeline to Chatham police regarding who she told about the alleged rape after it occured.

Peters’ motion to dismiss the charges claims that the information contained in the criminal complaint regarding the victim’s lack of consent was not sufficient enough to establish probable cause.

A separate motion requested that the court order the prosecution to preserve recordings of the woman’s meeting with Chatham police plus materials she submitted to the department, as well as communications made by and between law enforcement, her and her attorneys.

The memorandum in support of the bail agreement also said Peters’ family “including his mother and grandparents, has several generations of roots in the Cape Cod and New England community.”

A probable cause hearing was scheduled for Nov. 24.