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Gigi Jordan, the billionaire pharmaceutical executive convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son inside a luxury New York City hotel room, was found dead at her home Friday morning, according to reports.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had issued an order hours earlier revoking Jordan’s bail.
The 62-year-old woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2014 in connection with the death of her son, Jude Mirra.
The Belgian socialite allegedly admitted to using a syringe to plunge a lethal cocktail of painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol and orange juice down the boy’s throat inside her $2,300-a-night suite at the luxurious Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan in February 2010.
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Accused child murderer Gigi Jordan speaks to the Daily News on Rikers Island, where she awaits trial.
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Part of his defense was that he intended a murder-suicide, as Jordan also ingested various medications and emailed a relative, who allegedly alerted authorities. But prosecutors argued that while her autistic son was dying, she used her laptop to withdraw $125,000 from her trust fund, the NY Daily News reported.
Jordan was sentenced to 18 years in prison on the manslaughter charge, but was granted bail by a Manhattan federal judge in 2020 amid her ongoing appeals for a new trial.
His appeals centered on 15 minutes, during which the courtroom was briefly closed to the public during his trial.
A stretcher supposedly containing the body of socialite Gigi Jordan’s 8-year-old son, Jude Michael Mirra, leaves the Peninsula Hotel on February 5, 2010 in New York City. The boy was reportedly found dead in a luxury hotel room after an alleged botched murder-suicide involving the boy’s mother.
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Lower courts have held that Jordan’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was not infringed.
“At one point during the two-month trial, the trial court closed the courtroom to the public for approximately fifteen minutes to hear arguments about a website and email from the petitioner who accused the court of undermining the impartiality of the petitioner. trial,” said the Manhattan district attorney. Alvin Bragg’s office wrote to the Supreme Court last month. “The only impact of the closed-door proceeding was that, once the courtroom reopened, the court repeated an earlier instruction to the jury not to consume media coverage of the trial; later that day, the court He opened the minutes of the procedure behind closed doors and two exhibits that had been marked during it”.
Gigi Jordan appears in the witness box during cross-examination by the prosecutor during her trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Jordan is accused of killing her son Jude Michael Mirra.
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Citing anonymous officials, WNBC reported that Jordan was found dead in a bathtub just five minutes after midnight Friday morning inside a Brooklyn residence she was renting with a note nearby. If suicide is not immediately ruled out, a medical examiner will determine the official cause of death.
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Jordan’s lawyer, Norman Siegel, also confirmed his death to the media. The attorney said the last time he spoke to Jordan by phone was around 7:30 p.m. Thursday and that she “seemed in a good mood.”
“It’s incredibly sad. Gigi Jordan had a lot to offer society,” Siegel told the Daily News. “In the end, she didn’t get her chance to contribute to society.”
