Clavicular Faces Arraignment on Massachusetts Rape Charge

A Massachusetts court is scheduled to arraign livestream personality Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, on Thursday, October 22, 2026, over an allegation that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his family's home in Cape Cod. Peters, 20, denies the allegation, and his attorneys maintain that the sexual encounter was consensual.

According to the allegations described in the case, the incident occurred in May 2025 in Chatham, Massachusetts. Peters is accused of giving the teenager alcohol until she was intoxicated before sexually assaulting her. His arraignment is scheduled to take place at a court in Orleans.

The accuser told police that Peters had paid her to appear in his livestreamed videos about improving physical appearance. She alleged that he gave her two or three shots of vodka during her visit to the family home and broadcast himself kissing her while she was drunk.

She told police that she woke up the following morning and found Peters raping her. The allegations have also been described in a civil lawsuit she filed in Florida in April.

In the Florida lawsuit, the woman additionally accused Peters of injecting her with a fat-dissolving substance without her consent during a livestream. Peters' attorneys characterized the lawsuit as a "publicity grab."

Peters, who has approximately one million Instagram followers, is known for content centered on male appearance and extreme approaches to physical enhancement. His hourslong livestreams feature ratings of people's looks and discussions of methods such as cosmetic surgery and drug use.

The Massachusetts case is among several legal matters Peters has faced. Earlier in 2026, he was charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida after police alleged that he provoked a fight between two women and posted footage of it online. That charge was subsequently dropped.

In a separate Florida case in 2026, Peters was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to a charge that he fired a gun in public.

The Associated Press generally does not identify people who report being victims of sexual assault unless they consent to public identification. The Massachusetts case remains pending, and Peters has denied the rape allegation through his attorneys.