ORLEANS, Mass. — The “looksmaxxing” livestreamer Braden Peters, higher recognized by his stage title Clavicular, is about to be arraigned Thursday in Massachusetts on fees that he raped a 17-year-old lady at his household’s Cape Cod house.
A social media persona recognized for selling excessive devotion to male magnificence, Peters, 20, is accused of giving the lady alcohol till she was drunk after which sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, Massachusetts, in Might 2025.
Peters has denied the allegations by means of his attorneys, saying the sexual encounter was consensual. He’s scheduled to be arraigned at a courtroom in Orleans.
The case is the most recent authorized problem for Peters, who has 1,000,000 followers on Instagram, and whose hours-long livestreams function him score folks’s appears to be like and speaking about strategies of getting higher wanting that embrace surgical procedure and drug use.
Earlier this 12 months, he was charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida after police stated he provoked a battle between two ladies, then posted it on-line.
That cost was later dropped. In a separate Florida case this 12 months, he was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to a cost that he fired a gun in public.
The lady who accused Peters of rape advised police he had been paying her to seem in his “looksmaxxing” movies.
She stated that in her go to to a Peters household house, he gave her two or three pictures of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her whereas she was drunk.
She advised police that when she awakened the following morning, Peters was raping her.
The lady additionally described the alleged assault in a civil lawsuit she filed in Florida in April.
In that lawsuit, she additionally accused Peters of injecting her with a fat-dissolving substance throughout a livestream with out her consent.
Peters’ attorneys referred to as the lawsuit a “publicity seize.”
The Related Press usually doesn’t title individuals who say they have been victims of sexual assault until they consent to being recognized publicly.
If you happen to or somebody is affected by any of the problems raised on this story, name the Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673).
