The Story Behind The Akademics Lawsuit

In court documents obtained by the media outlet, a former acquaintance, Fauziya Abashe, alleges that Akademics (real name Livingston Allen), along with two of his friends, raped her, after they drugged her at his residence. The alleged incident took place in July 2022.
DJ Akademiks is on the hot seat after his ex-girlfriend filed a rape lawsuit against him, but he isn’t going down without a fight. The controversial media personality recently claimed that if he does go down for his allegations, he will take the entire rap industry down with him.

Rolling Stone obtained court documents filed through the Superior Court of New Jersey; Ziya Abashe, the Off The Record host’s former partner, is suing him for rape and defamation. She claims that, upon visiting Akademiks’ home in 2022, she was met by two men who drugged and coerced her into drinking to inebriation before they assaulted and raped her.
DJ Akademiks, media personality and host of the “Off The Record” podcast, has been accused of rape in a lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court.
In the filing, Fauziya “Ziya” Abashe alleges that she was assaulted by Akademiks, whose real name is Livingston Allen, and two John Does in two separate incidents at Akademiks’ New Jersey home in 2022, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone.

Abashe, a writer who dated Akademiks in 2021 before splitting later that year, claims she was invited to Akademik’s home in July 2022, where she was drugged, assaulted and raped by two men on his pool deck, Rolling Stone reported. The next morning, Abashe claims, Akademiks allegedly “brutally” raped her.
In the suit, Abashe claims that Akademiks “showed her surveillance footage of the two men raping her, and she included text messages from Akademiks afterward saying that she should ‘get tested’ and he would too,” according to Vulture.

Akademiks allegedly admitted to having sex with Abashe during a wire call, Abashe claimed in the lawsuit per Vulture. Abashe said she originally reported her alleged assault to the police before deciding not to press charges, the outlet reported. She chose to file the lawsuit after Akademiks brought up the alleged incident in a video posted to his YouTube channel on December 23, 2023.

In the video, Akademiks refers to Abashe “getting trained by my two mens on the pool deck,” leading Abashe to sue him for defamation. Abashe claims she tried to resolve the case privately several times without success, according to Abashe’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn.