Braden Peters, the online personality known as Clavicular, fired back at his accuser on X Monday night after rape and drugging charges surfaced in Massachusetts.
The 22-year-old “looksmaxxing” influencer, who built a following in the manosphere corner of the internet, was criminally charged Sept. 8 with rape, drugging a person for sex and providing alcohol to a minor, according to court records obtained by The Bulwark. The alleged assault occurred on May 23, at a family home in Cape Cod.
The rape charge alone carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and would require Peters to register as a sex offender if convicted. Court documents do not name a victim, consistent with Massachusetts law regarding sexual violence cases.
The criminal case appears connected to a civil lawsuit filed in April in Miami-Dade County by fellow influencer Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, who performs online as Alorah Ziva. Mendoza sued Peters for battery, fraud and emotional distress over an alleged unwanted sexual encounter in Cape Cod in May 2025.
Mendoza claimed in her suit that Peters paid for an Uber to transport her to his family home, where she had traveled hoping the meeting would advance her content creation career. Once there, the lawsuit alleges, Peters supplied the underage Mendoza with excessive alcohol and engaged in sexual acts with her while she was too intoxicated to consent, and again while she was asleep.
“Peters then had sex with Mendoza while she was knowingly intoxicated, to the point where she was unable to give consent,” the court document states. “That morning, while Mendoza was asleep, she woke up with Peters penetrating her and having sex with her, again without her consent.”
Afterward, the suit contends, Peters dispatched Mendoza in an Uber and had no contact with her for six months.
Peters did not directly address the criminal allegations in his Monday social media post. Instead, he trained his response on Mendoza’s civil action.
“Trying to get my attention in anyway [sic] possible, a lawsuit? Seriously … really petty of you,” Peters wrote on X.
A representative for Clavicular said that Mendoza had appended the sexual assault claim to her lawsuit months after the initial filing. The rep maintained that Peters was positioned to rebut Mendoza’s allegations, and characterized the criminal case as following from the plaintiff and her attorney approaching law enforcement.
“[S]he and her lawyer then go to police,” the representative said, explaining the sequence that led to the September charges.
Peters is scheduled for arraignment on Oct. 14.
The criminal charges mark the latest escalation in a controversy that began with Mendoza’s April lawsuit, which introduced the Cape Cod allegations into public view before prosecutors filed their case. The civil suit detailed the Uber arrangement, the alcohol consumption, and the two alleged non-consensual encounters that now form the basis of the state’s rape and drugging counts.
