Hip-hop media persona DJ Akademiks has been sued for rape, sexual assault, and defamation.
As Rolling Stone studies, Fauziya “Ziya” Abashe, a girl who dated Akademiks in 2021 after assembly him on-line, filed a lawsuit towards the YouTuber and podcaster. Akademiks is a distinguished and controversial determine within the rap media panorama, who typically places himself in the course of feuds and arguments. He has been an particularly high-profile determine over the previous month resulting from his involvement within the latest beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Within the swimsuit, Abashe alleges that on July 16, 2022, when she hadn’t seen Akademiks, whose actual title is Livingston Allen, for a couple of yr, he invited her to his house in New Jersey. Upon arrival, she says two unidentified males (named John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 in authorized paperwork) drugged her drink, which “impacted her reminiscence and brought on her to lose consciousness,” earlier than assaulting and raping her on Allen’s pool deck. Per the lawsuit, she awakened round 4AM in a bed room with Allen, who was within the technique of raping her. She says she was “begging” for him to cease and was “crying for many of this assault however shedding her capacity to maneuver bodily.” The lawsuit supplies additional graphic particulars in regards to the allegations.
Abashe says the subsequent morning Allen performed her footage of the alleged assault on the pool deck, and he or she noticed herself mendacity on the bottom lifeless through the encounter. She provides that he advised her to “get examined” and indicated he would do the identical. She says afterward she went to the police, who directed her to the hospital for a rape package, which detected traces of Allen’s sperm. She says the police then took images of the bruises on her physique and that she captured audio of Allen describing the assault on a “recorded wire name.”
Abashe says she selected to not press costs till the incident got here to mild when she and Allen mentioned it on social media in late 2023. In a video from December 30, 2023, Allen stated Abashe “was getting skilled by my two mens on my pool deck.” Within the lawsuit, Abashe says she is suing for defamation as a result of Allen implied she was voluntarily taking part in an orgy along with his mates. In a press release to Rolling Stone, Abashe stated, “I’m assured that justice will prevail and the veil might be eliminated so no different girl must endure what I did.”
In the event you or somebody you recognize is present process sexual abuse, please go to rainn.org or contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Helpline at 1-800-656-4673.
