Manosphere Star Clavicular Faces Rape Charge

Controversial “manosphere” influencer Braden Peters, 20, better known as Clavicular, is facing multiple criminal charges in Massachusetts, including rape.

Peters has been charged with rape, drugging someone for sexual intercourse, and procuring liquor for someone under 21 years old, according to court records reviewed by HuffPost. The charges, filed earlier this month, were first reported by The Bulwark, and are related to an incident that allegedly occurred in May 2025. An attorney for the influencer’s case has not been listed, but records show he is set to be arraigned on Oct. 14.

Mitchell Jackson, a representative for Peters, told NBC News in a text message Monday night that “Braden Peters has not been physically served. As usual the Bulwark is exaggerating.”

Since the news broke, Peters has made multiple posts on X that appear to take aim at a woman who previously made allegations against him.

“Happens to all successful young men, people try to come for your money. Greed is evil,” he wrote Monday, alongside a video of Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, a content creator who filed an April lawsuit accusing him of battery, fraud and sexual misconduct.

The lawsuit shares details with the affidavit related to Peters’ recent criminal charges. The suit states that Peters brought the TikTok star, who was under 21, to his parents’ home on Cape Cod, where she was served “excessive” amounts of alcohol. It accuses Peters of “penetrating her and having sex with her” despite her being too intoxicated to give consent.

Mendoza’s lawsuit also alleged that Peters injected her with Aqualyx, a fat-dissolving substance not approved by the FDA, during a livestream.

The criminal affidavit against Peters, meanwhile, describes a Cape Cod incident in which he told a 17-year-old girl, whose name has been redacted, to lie on a livestream and say that she was 18.

“He also instructed her to say that the alcohol is water, so that neither his Twitch account nor live stream gets banned,” the affidavit read, adding that the victim said she “felt that she was peer-pressured to consume it.”

She told officers that once the livestream ended, the two made out on the couch, while she was “really drunk,” and eventually fell asleep in his bed, according to the affidavit. However, she told officers that she woke up to Peters “having sex with me.”

“She stated that because it was already occurring, she did not tell Mr. Peters to stop,” the officer’s account in the affidavit read, adding that she “advised that she did not consent to the sexual intercourse.”

In a statement to HuffPost, Jackson implied that the woman who filed the lawsuit and the victim in the affidavit are one and the same. The statement said the first version of the lawsuit did not allege sexual assault.

“She files a lawsuit and doesn’t include sexual assault as a count. Then she amends it and adds it a couple of months later,” the statement read.

He added that Peters had “filed a motion to dismiss” the lawsuit because he had evidence showing she “knew what was happening’ with the Aqualyx injections, and that she “went to police” after Peters “refused to pay money.”