Livestreamer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape charges

Braden Peters, the livestreamer known as Clavicular, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he drugged and raped a teenager at his family’s Cape Cod home in May 2025.

Peters, 20, faces charges of rape, drugging someone for sexual intercourse and procuring liquor for a person under 21, according to a criminal complaint filed in Orleans District Court in Massachusetts. A judge set bail at $10,000, which Peters paid in cash. He surrendered his passport and agreed not to contact or post about the woman who accused him, The Guardian reported.

The accuser is Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, an 18-year-old influencer who was 17 at the time of the alleged assault, according to NBC News. She told police Peters arranged an Uber to bring her to his family’s home in Chatham, on Cape Cod. Mendoza alleged that Peters gave her vodka during a Twitch livestream and raped her while she was asleep, according to the criminal complaint. His mother and grandmother were allegedly in the house.

The Guardian reported that Mendoza told police Peters had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” videos. She said he gave her two or three shots of vodka and later livestreamed himself kissing her while she was drunk. She told police she woke the next morning to find Peters raping her.

Peters has denied wrongdoing. His lawyers have said the sexual encounter was consensual, The Guardian reported. In a filing seeking $10,000 bail, his attorney argued that Peters was neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk and had no felony convictions.

The defense filing also disputed Mendoza’s account of their relationship. It said she willingly made content with Peters, had described him to followers as “so nice” and continued spending time and working with him after the alleged assault. It included a letter purportedly written by Mendoza saying, “Braden, you have my loyalty 100%… I admire the man you are.” The filing also alleged that Mendoza gave police differing accounts of whether she had told a friend about the alleged assault.

Mendoza filed a civil suit in Miami last year accusing Peters of sexual battery over the Cape Cod incident. The suit also alleged that he injected her face with a non-FDA-approved fat-dissolving substance during a November livestream in Florida, NBC News reported. She refiled the suit earlier this month without the sexual assault allegations; her lawyer said the change was intended to avoid interfering with the Massachusetts criminal case.

Peters has also faced charges in Florida. A misdemeanor battery charge was dropped after police alleged that he provoked a fight between two women and posted a video of it online, The Guardian reported. In a separate case involving a gun fired in public, Peters pleaded no contest and received six months of probation and 20 hours of community service, according to NBC News.

Peters and his lawyers did not comment as they left the courthouse, The Guardian reported.