Influencer 'Clavicular' pleads not guilty to rape allegation
Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, is denying the allegations. (Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times via AP)
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The online influencer Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault charges.
He is accused of giving a girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her.
What's next?
He has agreed to a $US10,000 ($14,200) bail, surrendered his passport and will not contact or post about the woman who has accused him of assault.
The "looksmaxxing" influencer Braden Peters, better known by his stage name Clavicular, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his family's Massachusetts home.
A social media personality known for promoting extreme devotion to male beauty, Mr Peters, 20, is accused of giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, on Cape Cod, in May 2025.
Mr Peters has denied the allegations through his lawyers, saying the sexual encounter was consensual.
Mr Peters arrived at the courthouse in Orleans, Massachusetts, wearing a dark suit, walking a barking dog on a leash.
He spoke only to the dog as he entered the courthouse and ignored reporters' questions. Mr Peters maintained a neutral facial expression during the brief arraignment.
He has agreed to a $US10,000 ($14,200) bail, surrendered his passport and will not contact or post about the woman who has accused him of assault.
He and his lawyers also did not comment as he left the courthouse.
The case is the latest legal challenge for Mr Peters, who has one million followers on Instagram, and whose hours-long live-streams feature him rating people's looks and talking about methods of becoming better looking that include surgery and drug use.
Earlier this year, he was charged with misdemeanour battery in Florida after police said he provoked a fight between two women and then posted a video of it online. That charge was later dropped.
In a separate Florida case this year, he was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to a charge that he fired a gun in public.
The woman who accused Mr Peters of rape told police that during her visit to Mr Peters' family home, he gave her two or three shots of vodka.
She told police that when she woke up the next morning, Mr Peters was raping her.
The woman also described the alleged assault in a lawsuit she filed in Florida in April.
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