Looksmaxxer 'Clavicular' Charged with Rape: Criminal Complaint

The influencer behind looks maxing, clavvicular, has been charged with rape. Looks maxing, you know, the subculture. of self-improving your looks, maximizing. your physical appearance. He's the. poster boy behind it all. Braden Peters, aka Clvicular, is now facing three. criminal charges out in Massachusetts. for a disturbing incident where he. allegedly drugged someone underage to. have sex with them. Let's break it down. right now. Welcome to Sidebar, presented. by Law and Crime. I'm Jesse Weber. All.

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And the charges are, I'm going to warn. you right now, extremely serious and. extremely disturbing. Charge one, rape. Charge two, drugging someone for sexual. intercourse. Charge three, providing. alcohol to someone under 21. So, before. we jump into it all right now, what we. know, here's a quick background on. Clavicular, if this is new to you, if. this is a new case, if you don't know. who he is. So, Clavvicular, aka Braden. Peters, is a 20-year-old influencer. who's basically what some would call the. poster boy for Looks Maxon. He has.

gained a huge following on social media. You probably have seen his videos and. whether you know his name or not, you. probably recognize him. 1 million. followers on Instagram, 1.2 million. followers on Tik Tok. And he does and. says some arguably pretty controversial. things. seemingly admitting to hitting. his face with a hammer to make his. jawline sharper. Reportedly doing drugs, supplements to stay quote physically. attractive. He also often discusses sex. with women. Gives advice to young men. about how they should go about having. sex or look better. Essentially, the.

hookup culture that's a little too. runchy to go into details about here on. YouTube, but you can check out his. stuff. And this influencer, who we've. talked about before, is not too shy to. legal trouble. No, he's previously faced. charges out in Florida stemming from an. incident with an alligator. He was also. hit with a lawsuit earlier this year. that revealed some pretty disturbing. details about this incident inside. Clvicular's parents' home in Cape Cod in. May of 2025. And if you remember that. date, because it ties back to the. allegations that we're talking about.

here, because that's what leads us to. today, to the new charges that he's. facing. Online records in Massachusetts. lists the charges that I mentioned, rape, drugging someone for sexual. intercourse, and providing alcohol for. someone under 21. So, the charges were. filed on September 8th in the Orleans. District Court and online it shows this. alleged offense date occurred on May. 23rd, 2025. So, you're seeing the. connection there right now. The Bull. Work was the first outlet to report on. the charges being filed against.

Clvicular. And according to the Bull. Work, a representative for the. influencer claimed that Clvicular has. not been served with an arrest warrant. But we got our hands on the criminal. complaint from the Chatham Police. Department out in Massachusetts, which. gives us an inside look into their. investigation, including an interview. with the alleged victim here, Alexandra. Vasalevna Mendoza. This is after she. came to the police station on June 4th. And remember, Mendoza was the one who. filed that lawsuit that I mentioned. before. She was the one who filed that.

lawsuit surrounding her alleged. interactions with clavicular where she. claimed that she was a minor at the time. of these alleged events. She said she's. now 18 years old. So, let's get into the. criminal complaint. I'm going to read. verbatim. Quote, "Miss Mendoza explained. that she would like to report being. raped by Braden Peters. Miss Mendoza. advised that she and Mr. Peters started. texting on Instagram and it evolved into. her being paid to do looks maxing. videos. Mr. Peters invited her to stream. videos online to make her name known on.

social media. Miss Mendoza advised that. after approximately one week of talking. to Mr. Peters, he ordered her an Uber to. his residence. Mr. Peter's family. residence is in Shatham. Mr. Peters. often goes by the names Clavicular or. Clav. And according to the report, Mendoza apparently stated that. Clavvicular ordered her an Uber from her. grandparents residence to his family's. residence in Chatham. So this was on May. 23rd, 2025. She apparently told police. that when she got to the house sometime. during that night, she greeted Peter's.

mother and grandmother who were inside. Clvicular then allegedly led her to his. bedroom where he was apparently. streaming live on Twitch. She told. police that Clavvicular was quote aware. of her age, which she confirmed was 17. at the time, but he allegedly told her. to lie on the live stream, say she was. 18. Mendoza claimed to police that she. was also instructed to say that the. alcohol was water so that neither his. Twitch account nor the live stream got. banned. Mendoza also apparently.

reportedly told police that she talked. about looks maxing on the live stream. Said quote things were just awkward, but. she wasn't aware of any alcohol only. until later in the stream when Kvicular. allegedly had it on his desk and offered. it to her. quote, "She believed that she. was just going to receive an Uber back. home after the stream ended. I asked her. what type of alcohol it was, to which. she stated that it was vodka. She stated. that she no longer felt the awkward. feelings when alcohol was invited. because she calmed down and was now. relaxed. She stated that although they.

both began consuming the alcohol, she. felt that she was pure pressure to. consume it." Miss Mendoza clarified that. before the alcohol was consumed, she was. not being touchy or flirty. She stated. that she only began to be flirty after. the alcohol was consumed where she and. Mr. Peters quote kiss once on the. stream. I asked Miss Mendoza how much. alcohol she consumed to which she stated. that she likely had two three shots but. it was like not really shots. It was. more so like cups and then pointed to a. certain level in her coffee cup in front.

of her. She stated that she was a. lightweight so at the end it would just. got more intense referring to feeling. drunk and stronger effects of the. alcohol. She stated that it was quote a. lot in a way for me. Now Mendoza. apparently told police that Clavvicular. offered her alcohol a second time which. she declined because quote it was too. much already. At the end of the stream, this is when Mendoza claims it was. turned off that they began to make out. on the couch. She stated she was really. drunk at that point in time. Then.

Mendoza claims they went over to his bed. to have sex where he was quote throwing. her in different positions. Mendoza said. she fell asleep in his bed the next. morning and woke up to Peter's quote. having sex with her. She told police. because the intercourse was already. occurring, she didn't tell him to stop, but she didn't consent to the. intercourse. Quote, she demonstrated how. waking up to Mr. Peters quote on top of. her was surprising by throwing her hands. towards her face and pushing her head. backwards. I asked Miss Mendoza what she. remembers feeling in that moment as Mr.

Peters was on top of her to which she. stated that she did not quote have a. chance to like check my feelings I was. just like was getting when I woke up. She stated quote that was so. uncomfortable. I asked Miss Mendoza if. Mr. Peters said anything to her as he. was on top to which she stated that he. did not. I asked Miss Mendoza if she. said anything to him as he was on top to. which she stated no I was like in shock. I asked Miss Mendoza if at any point she. verbally consented to which she stated. that she did not. She stated that even.

the night prior after consuming alcohol, she did not verbally consent either. I. asked Miss Mendoza if she was in fear to. which she stated that she was as she did. not want to talk about what occurred to. anyone. She believes it to have been. quote embarrassing. So, she did not want. to tell her grandparents who she lived. with at the time. Now, Mendoza. apparently told police she didn't have. any intention on having sex with Mr. Peters either the night before or that. morning. But she claims after clvicular,

Mr. Peters finished having sex with her, he was quote so cold and ordered her an. Uber home. And police included in the. report that Mendoza didn't receive a. sexual assault forensic examination. afterwards. After heading home, Mendoza. said she had not seen Peters for about 6. months. And when asked who she told. about the incident, she said she kept it. to herself for a while. and she. eventually told a friend, but later. admitted she never told anyone the full. extent of what occurred with Clavicular. that night or the following morning. The.

report states that Mendoza's attorney. then showed police clips of the Twitch. stream from his phone directly from. Clvicular's Twitch account. Quote, "In. the clips, it shows Mr. Peters and Miss. Mendoza sitting in two chairs. Mr. Peters is shirtless in some of the clips. and then wearing a white collared shirt. in others. In one clip, Mr. Peters asked. Miss Mendoza, "Don't you you get red too. when you drink or no?" Miss Mendoza then. asked Mr. Peters if her face appeared. red, to which he stated a little bit. Both of their cheeks appeared flushed in. this clip. In another clip, Mr. Peters.

was shirtless, and Miss Mendoza stated, "Wait, I'm so drunk, though." before she. and Mr. Peters kissed on the lips. The. report states that based on Mendoza's. apparent level of intoxication, which. was brought about by Peter's allegedly. furnishing alcohol to her for the. purposes of engaging in sexual. intercourse as she was a minor under the. age of 21 years old. The officer. believes that she lacked the ability to. legally consent. And for that reason, the officer believes that probable cause. exists to support the charges against. Peters, which again are rape, drugging.

someone for sexual intercourse, and. providing alcohol to someone under 21. Now, I want to turn back to Mendoza's. lawsuit for a moment because we learn. some additional background information. here, which could play a role in the. criminal case. So, the civil complaint. describes Mendoza as coming from a. troubled background. She claims that at. just 17 years old, she turned to social. media to try to support herself. financially through sponsorships. Online, she was known as Allora or. Allora Zea. And then we go again to May. of 2025 and Mendoza alleges that Peters.

paid her $1,000 to film videos. She. claims that Peters wanted her to become. the female She claims that Peters wanted. her to become the female face of the. looks maxing movement. And according to. this civil complaint, Peters allegedly. helped her create videos and even wrote. scripts for her. There was a problem. Mendoza claims that she hadn't actually. met Peters in person yet. And she. alleges that Peters eventually arranged. for that Uber to take her to Cape Cod. where she would meet him at his parents. home. And this is where we saw the.

allegations made in the criminal. complaint. So that was incident A, if. you will. But the lawsuit further. describes another incident. Let's call. this incident B or alleged incident B. So Mendoza claims that she ran into. Clvicular in Miami in November of 2025. where he complimented her looks maxing. progress, invited her and her friends to. his home for a streaming session. She. claims that he told her he could help. grow her online following. Mendoza. alleges that Peters attempted to kiss. her. She rejected him. She claims he.

then took her into a bedroom in Del Rey. where he began live streaming on the. Kick platform. According to the lawsuit, Peters reportedly had this vial of. Aqualix and syringes and told Mendoza. that he wanted to inject her cheeks to. dissolve fat as part of his efforts to. help her with looks maxing. And she. alleges that he presented himself as. having medical authority despite not. being a licensed physician. Mendoza. claims alleges that Peters injected her.

multiple times in both cheeks while this. session was being live streamed and she. alleges that the injection went wrong, caused her cheek to be perforated and. claims that Peter suggested that. methamphetamine had been added to the. substance. She further alleges that she. appeared drugged on camera and believes. that she may have been injected with. meth or another undisclosed substance. And Mendoza claims that they continued. seeing each other afterward with Peters. allegedly paying bouncers to let her. into bars and obtaining alcohol for her. despite knowing she was a minor. She.

claims she believed throughout these. encounters that he was trying to help. advance her career. Claims that some of. their interactions were live streamed on. kick. And then in 2026, Mendoza alleges. that Peters began a campaign to. discredit her, which she claims resulted. in the loss of sponsorships. and she. specifically points to this apparent. contract with an online trading platform. that she claims had been paying her. $15,000 a month. So, the lawsuit alleges. that Peter's efforts to discredit. Mendoza were connected to her potential. legal claims over the live streamed.

injection and other alleged misconduct. And in this new amended lawsuit, Mendoza. hits Clavicular with five counts. Count. one, battery. Mendoza claims that Peters. intentionally injected her with an. unapproved drug without consent, causing. her physical and psychological injuries. to her. In the lawsuit, her team claims. that act constitutes battery. Count two, intentional infliction of emotional. distress by Braden Peters. So Mendoza. claims that the injection of that. unapproved drug without consent was. intentional, reckless, outrageous,

quote, utterly intolerable in a. civilized society. Count three, fraud by. Braden Peters. So Mendoza claims that. Clavvicular knew that this drug was not. an FDA approved drug, failed to provide. relevant information to her, injected. her anyway, and according to the. lawsuit, that's fraud. That's. concealment. Count four, unauthorized. publication of name and likeness. So she. claims that Clvicular used her name, photograph, likeness on his live stream. and replay content that she says she. didn't validly consent for him to do so. And then you have count five, sexual.

battery. So Mendoza claims that Peters. had sexual intercourse with her while. she was intoxicated. She couldn't give. consent and based on Massachusetts law, she believes that those acts constitute. sexual battery. Now, Clevicular has not. released a formal statement on his. criminal charges, but he hasn't stayed. silent. In fact, he took to X last night. with multiple posts, and one of them. reads, quote, "Trying to get my. attention in any way possible. A. lawsuit. Seriously, really petty of. you." And on that expost, he attached.

what appears to be a written letter. along with text messages allegedly from. Mendoza to clvicular. The attached. letter reads in part, quote, just know. Braden, you have my loyalty 100%. I. admire the man you are and secretly the. values you had about women should be in. the kitchen, lol. I'm also really. thankful for you helping me as much as. you have been providing some income for. me in a place because genuinely I've. always wanted a stable place and you're. providing that. As for the text message. exchange, it includes the following. allegedly from Mendoza. I want you NGL.

I'm tired of being like independent. I. mean, I like it, but I just need a man. to relax with. We could keep everything. private, too. Like, no social media. And. Clvicular responds, I've been pretty. busy. And allegedly, Mendoza writes, "Yeah, I get that. When you're get more. settled, let me know. Can you help me. set up kick?" And in another post, he. apparently wrote, "Lmao was literally. trying to work at Bakara as a bottle. girl. How about don't finance cars you. can't afford? Happens to all successful. young men. People try to come for your.

money. Greed is evil. And he also. attached a screen grab of an alleged DM. from Mendoza from Tik Tok to an unknown. party saying, quote, "Hey, so I have a. question. I know you're a bottle girl. and I'm so curious how much you make and. how the job is and if it gets scary, just your thoughts in general. As for. any criminal charges tied to the Miami. incident that was mentioned in Mendoza's. complaint, I mean, we'll have to wait. and see what happens. I do want to make. clear though, so far none have been. filed connected to that alleged. incident. But in the meantime, we're.

going to be keeping a close eye on how. Clvicular's current charges play out in. court. He has an arraignment date now. set reportedly for October 14th. Okay, so right now I want to break all this. down and I got a great guest. I got. criminal defense attorney Will Corman. who knows this area of law, knows this. jurisdiction, will help us fill in some. of the pieces of the puzzle. Now, if we. assume for a moment that these are the. same allegations in the criminal case. that mirror the civil case, if we make. that assumption, and look, based on what. we saw in the the police record, the the. police the police report, I think that's.

a fair assumption to make. I'm not. surprised then, then we're seeing. criminal charges. Um, but my question is. a few things. One, what do you think led. to the criminal charges now? I mean, what do you think was the investigation? Because there's three separate charges. here. And I'll just say it seemed that. there was a period of time between the. report between when this happened and. the charges. What do you think happened? Let's start there. So I think a few. things happened. Um first of all, as a. criminal defense attorney, uh if I were.

representing him, I'd be thrilled that. the civil case began first because you. can get a whole lot of materials. You. can do depositions. You can begin to. conduct discovery knowing that maybe a. criminal case is in the background. But. nevertheless, as the defense attorney, I. want to get as much information as I can. from as many sources as I can. So, what. I think happened is I think the civil. case went along for a little while. Uh I. don't know what finally uh tripped the. switch and made them take out criminal. charges. Like you said, it's not. surprising. I think the the delay is a.

little surprising, but again, we have. such a small amount of information. I'm. sure law enforcement wanted to do some. sort of investigation other than simply. just taking a police report and that's. what led to the delay. >> Well, look, and if there's a situation. where this goes to trial and uh a. criminal trial and she's questioned by. defense council, they'll say, you know, don't you have a financial incentive? Haven't you filed the lawsuit against. him? And I do wonder, you know, what. would go first, the civil I'd imagine, wouldn't the civil case be paused while.

the criminal case goes forward or no? Well, that's one of the great things. from a criminal defense standpoint. The. the defendant gets to decide when they. want to hit that pause button. So, for. example, if a deposition of this young. lady has already been scheduled as a. criminal defense attorney, I'm going to. let that happen. But as soon as they. start trying to get information from my. client, that's when I'm going to hit the. pause button. >> Could you use those civil depositions in. the criminal case? >> A thousand%. >> Got it. Okay. So, let me ask you this. now. It seems that the police reviewing.

this live stream may have aided in this. investigation, may have supported the. charges to a certain extent. I mean, if. you're talking about the alcohol charge, if you look at the live stream and you. look at the allegations where based on. the conversations and the behavior, I. guess that's what supports that he. allegedly supplied her with alcohol as a. minor, right? I think that I mean, you. tell me. Am I correct in assuming that's. the value of the live stream there? How. much does the live stream, the actual.

video, uh, support the other charges? >> I don't know that it supports the other. charges at all. And quite frankly, if at. the end of the day, the only thing that. this young man has to deal with is. providing alcohol to minors, I would. consider that a win if I were his. attorney. >> But there's something that led. investigators here that would lead. authorities, lead prosecutors to file. these charges. Is it just her account. against his? Is it the kiss, the alleged. kiss caught on tape? Is it a. corroborating statement? I've mentioned.

before that there seems to be avenues. for a criminal defense attorney to. explore whether it was how she reported. or didn't report it or what story she. told, but what led them to go forward. with these charges or can you have a. full prosecution if it's just her. account against his? Yeah, in the. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, there's. no requirement that there be any sort of. corroborating information. From a. prosecutor's standpoint, it's great if. there is, but there doesn't need to be.

The testimony, the sworn testimony of a. witness under oath, that is enough. That's all it would take. >> If they can establish what her age was. at the time and his age, and there's a. kiss perhaps or allegedly caught on. tape, how much does that support their. case? The age of consent in. Massachusetts for sexual activity, for. actual sexual intercourse uh is 16. Uh. and indecent uh assault, the age of. consent is 14. So I actually don't think. that a kiss really matters one way or. another. I don't think that that in and. of itself gives rise to charges uh if.

she consented to do it. >> What did you make of his response so. far? you know, taking to social media, posting what appears to be conversations. either with her or ones that she had. and, you know, responding to this. because many criminal defendants, celebrities or non-ceelebrities, they. they don't make statements. They don't. say anything. They allow their attorneys. to speak for them. Does that signify. something to you? I it's not advice I. would have given him. I I I think that. there's plenty out there and I'm sure he.

will have fantastic attorneys who can. make all those statements for him. Quite. frankly, it's the statement that. attorney an attorney would have made to. some extent, right? There's a there's a. financial motivation here. There's. already a civil lawsuit that's going on. These are the reasons why, you know, she's now pushing forward with a. criminal investigation and a criminal. case. Uh, all things being equal, I. think it's better for an attorney to say. that rather than a criminal defendant. themselves. But, um, you know, he has a. right to free speech. He's an individual. who certainly is not shy about talking.

about whatever he chooses to talk about. So, it's not surprising he made those. statements. I probably would advise. against it, but again, the statements. themselves, the the the gist of the. statements, it's what any lawyer would. say. >> So, there was that portion I mentioned. before where a representative for him. said that he hadn't been served an. arrest warrant. Is that true? I mean, what do you make of that? >> Sure. So, uh, he hasn't been served with. an arrest warrant. And in Massachusetts, you don't need to be served with an. arrest warrant for cases to go forward. So, he has received what's called a.

summon. That's what you can actually see. when you look online. He's received a. summon to come to court uh in. mid-occtober for an arraignment. Uh they. are not going to arrest him prior to. that. If he doesn't show up for court, they may issue an arrest warrant, but. no, an arrest warrant hasn't been. issued. No one should read anything into. that. That's just how this process plays. itself out. >> What happens next in this criminal case? I mean, um, if you said you were. representing him, these are very serious. charges and serious allegations, and. like you said, they could have a case. purely built on her account. What.

happens next? I believe it's is it the. arraignment that happens next? I mean, where do you expect in the next few. weeks, the next few months for this now. criminal case to go? Sure. So, uh, the. case is going on right now in the. Orleans District Court, which is, um, in. Massachusetts, we have two levels of. courts. We have district courts and we. have superior courts. Right now, the. cases in the district court as as most. cases start out, if the charges are. going to stay the way they are in. Massachusetts, you can't be charged with.

rape. You can't be prosecuted for rape. in the district court. The case has to. go to the superior court. But again, almost all cases start in the district. court. So, in mid-occtober, he will go. There'll be an arraignment. We've we've. all seen them. We've all covered them. He will plead not guilty. Uh he will. there will be some bail conditions set. I doubt there will be a cash bail that. he can't post. it's unlikely that he'll. be incarcerated while this case is. pending. And then in district court, the. case will tread water for a little while. until it's presented to a grand jury and. then gone to the superior court uh which.

is also in Barnsible County, also on. Cape Cod, and then the process almost. starts over again. There's another. arraignment, but now the case actually. starts going uh formally. >> You don't think that there's going to be. an issue of bond? You don't think Bond. would be denied or or what do you think. uh an amount would we be looking at. here? >> Sure. I I I think that if they were. going to try to hold him, then they. would have issued an arrest warrant. And. the fact that they didn't issue an. arrest warrant is somewhat telling. If. there is a bail amount that's set, it.

will be a bail amount that his lawyers. and the prosecutors already negotiate. It's a bail they'll know he'll be able. to post. And there'll be some conditions. or there could be some conditions. attached to it. Um you know, there could. be a curfew. There could be um uh no. drugs or alcohol. There can be uh urine. screens. There can be all sorts of. conditions attached to it as long as. they're reasonably reasonably related to. the crime that's charged. There'll. certainly be a stayaway and no contact. order. Uh things along those lines. But. I'd be very surprised if all of a sudden.

there was a request for a high cash bail. that he wasn't able to post. Again, if. that's something they were going to do, they already would have arrested him and. held him. >> What did you make of the Miami. allegation? So they're not, as far as I. can see, like he's not charged in. Florida for any of those allegations. that are part of the complaint. Is it. going to play a role in the. Massachusetts case? Do you expect. criminal charges out in Florida for. that? Um because again, if we assume. it's the same person and the same set of. allegations and the same timeline, I. wonder if a jury would hear about I.

wonder if it's going to make up any. additional charges. >> So I suppose there could be charges in. Florida. I suppose the more interesting. question is is would the jury in. Massachusetts know about the Florida. charges and could the Florida jury know. about the Massachusetts charges? The. answer is usually no, but there are some. evidentiary times where that can those. can be interwoven. I don't know uh if. that's particularly where we are in this. case yet. I think it's a little close in. time. Uh we'll we'll certainly find out. more about both later on. I'm a little.

surprised he hasn't been charged in. Florida. um maybe he won't be and that's. why we already are here in. Massachusetts. >> So look, he is innocent by the way. He's. innocent unless proven guilty. This is. the beginning of the criminal case. You. know, we saw the reporting and then it. got picked up and it seems like his team. is even fighting back on some of the. reporting from the bull work, but we got. a chance to see some of these documents. So, let's see what happens next. Will. Corman, thank you uh for being our eyes. and our ears about what's happening in. Massachusetts. Appreciate it, sir. >> Thanks for having me.

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