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Looksmaxxer Braden "Clavicular" Peters charged with rape [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2026-09-22  

Clavicular, who rose to fame promoting the weird grooming methods termed "looxmaxxing," has worse problems than being mogged by a chad judge. The influencer, legally named Braden Peters, faces felony charges in Massachussets, where he is accused with drugging someone for sex, with procuring liquor for someone under 21 years old, and with rape.

The Bulwark first reported the criminal complaint, just as Peters has launched his bid to move from manosphere to mainstream media. NBC News spoke to his lawyer, who claims that The Bulkwark is "exaggerating." But it lined up the complaint with other news out of Florida.

The charges were filed Sept. 8, and the alleged offenses occurred May 23, 2025, the records indicate. More details about the allegations were not immediately available. … Clavicular in April was sued by a teenage influencer in Florida who accused him of battery. Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, who online is known as Alorah or Alorah Ziva, filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade County that alleged that in 2025 he arranged for her to go to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, gave her vodka until she was drunk, and then had sex with her while she was intoxicated, NBC South Florida reported.

If you'd think the relentless chaos and prior criminal conduct should be a clue for everyone involved in promoting him, you might be assuming they don't already know.

Clavicular's viral moment was using a hammer to "bonesmash" his own face in hopes of becoming a more handsome gentleman, but that's just one of the wilder techniques in the looksmaxxing arsenal.

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