‘Looksmaxxing’ streamer known as Clavicular set to be arraigned on rape charge

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The “looksmaxxing” livestreamer Braden Peters, better known by his stage name Clavicular, is set to be arraigned Thursday in Massachusetts on charges that he raped a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Cape Cod home.

A social media personality known for promoting extreme devotion to male beauty, Peters, 20, is accused of giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, Massachusetts, in May 2025.

Peters has denied the allegations through his lawyers, saying the sexual encounter was consensual. He is scheduled to be arraigned at a court in Orleans.

The case is the latest legal challenge for Peters, who has a million followers on Instagram, and whose hourslong livestreams feature him rating people’s looks and talking about methods of getting better looking that include surgery and drug use.

Earlier this year, he was charged with misdemeanor battery in Florida after police said he provoked a fight between two women then posted 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 Peters of rape told police he had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” videos. She said that during her visit to a Peters family home, he gave her two or three shots of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her while she was drunk. She told police that when she woke up the next morning, Peters was raping her.

The woman also described the alleged assault in a civil lawsuit she filed in Florida in April. In that lawsuit, she also accused Peters of injecting her with a fat-dissolving substance during a livestream without her consent.

Peters’ attorneys called the lawsuit a “publicity grab.”

The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they consent to being identified publicly.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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以“外貌提升”为主题的直播主播布雷登·彼得斯（艺名 Clavicular）将于周四在马萨诸塞州出庭受审，他被指控在其位于科德角的家中强奸了一名 17 岁的女孩。

20岁的彼得斯是一位在社交媒体上以宣扬对男性外貌的极端崇拜而闻名的名人，他被指控在2025年5月女孩前往马萨诸塞州查塔姆探望他时，给她喝酒直到她喝醉，然后对她进行性侵犯。

彼得斯通过律师否认了这些指控，称性行为是双方自愿的。他将于奥尔良一家法院出庭受审。

这起案件是彼得斯面临的最新法律挑战。彼得斯在 Instagram 上拥有百万粉丝，他经常进行长达数小时的直播，评价人们的外貌，并谈论包括手术和药物在内的各种让自己变得更漂亮的方法。

今年早些时候，他因涉嫌挑衅两名女性并在网上发布视频，在佛罗里达州被控轻罪殴打。该指控后来被撤销。在今年佛罗里达州的另一起案件中，他承认在公共场所开枪，被判缓刑。

指控彼得斯强奸的女子告诉警方，彼得斯付钱让她出演他的“外貌提升”视频。她说，在她去彼得斯家做客期间，彼得斯给她喝了两三杯伏特加，然后在她醉酒时直播亲吻她。她告诉警方，第二天早上醒来时，彼得斯正在强奸她。

该女子还在4月份于佛罗里达州提起的民事诉讼中描述了这起涉嫌性侵事件。在该诉讼中，她还指控彼得斯未经她同意，在直播期间给她注射了一种溶脂剂。

彼得斯的律师称这场诉讼是“博取公众眼球”。

美联社一般不会公布性侵受害者的姓名，除非他们同意公开身份。

这是一则正在更新的新闻。