That man is Miami nightlife impresario Hai Waknine, who in addition to running Bacara operates several other clubs. Waknine lives a glamorous life: He’s married to a former model and he partied on his yacht with rapper Offset just before the rapper was shot earlier this month. Now he’s taken Clavicular under his wing, helping him sign a deal for a dating app meant to distribute women more equally to members of the incel community, and guiding him through condominium purchases.

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But Waknine’s new alliance with the internet’s hottest “looksmaxxer” is notable for another reason. Waknine has a lengthy criminal record, and he has maintained close connections to some of Israel’s most feared organized crime groups, according to federal prosecutors. He has a history of terrorizing his business associates and served several years in federal prison for extortion. Just last year, prosecutors alleged that Waknine used members of the Crips and Mexican Mafia gangs as his enforcers.

Going into business with the club owner poses other kinds of risks for the appearance-minded Clavicular. Waknine has boasted, according to prosecutors, that he once cut a man’s ear after kidnapping him over an outstanding debt.

Meanwhile, Clavicular’s surprising new alliance with an Israeli-American ex-convict has enraged many of his antisemitic far-right friends and followers, who now fume in the chat whenever Waknine appears on one of Clavicular’s livestreams. For the rest of us, Clavicular’s new arrangement with Waknine offers some insight into the opportunities available in the tumultuous right-wing media world for a charismatic young man who may care deeply about his looks but evidently has little regard for his actual, physical well-being.