Clavicular Influencer Braden Peters Pleads Not Guilty

Influencer Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, pleaded not guilty in Orleans District Court on October 22 to charges including rape, drugging someone for sexual intercourse and procuring liquor for someone under 21. The charges stem from allegations involving a 17-year-old girl at Peters’s family home in Chatham, Massachusetts, in May 2025. Peters was 20 at the time of his arraignment. A judge set bail at $10,000, which Peters paid in cash. Reports of the court’s release conditions said he was ordered to surrender his passport, stay away from the accuser and not contact her or post about her online. The criminal complaint alleges Peters gave the girl alcohol and had sex with her when she was unable to consent. The accuser told police the encounter was nonconsensual. The charges are allegations, and the plea leaves the case unresolved; no finding of guilt is reported. Peters’s lawyer, David Meier, said Peters maintains the encounter was consensual and that the two had a professional and personal relationship that continued after the alleged incident. In a defense memo filed before the arraignment, Peters’s lawyers argued that the accuser continued collaborating with him...