Akaaboune met the film producer Peter Rodger in 1999. The pair subsequently married and had a son, Jazz. Akaaboune was the stepmother of Elliot Rodger, the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings. The two had a strained relationship, and Rodger had also planned to murder Akaaboune. She returned to Morocco at the end of 2014. Akaaboune speaks French, Arabic, English and Spanish.