A pharma millionaire who admitted to murdering her 8-year-old autistic son in 2010 was found dead early Friday morning in her Brooklyn rental home, according to New York City’s NBC 4.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had just revoked bail for Gigi Jordan, 62, the day before, amid Jordan’s legal fight for a new trial.
The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to Oxygen.com Thursday that Jordan’s death has been ruled a a suicide, with the specific manner being “asphyxia by covering of head with plastic bag.”
Officials had previously said Jordan was found dead in a bathtub with a note nearby, according to NBC 4, but her attorney said she had sounded in good spirits hours earlier when the two spoke by phone.
In 2014, the New York socialite was convicted of first-degree manslaughter for killing her son Jude Mirra in a luxury Manhattan hotel in February of 2010, by administering fatal doses of prescription medications, according to previous Oxygen.com reporting. Jordan confessed to forcing the boy, who was diagnosed with severe autism and was mostly non-verbal, to ingest a combination of vodka and medication.
She also took Xanax pills as part of a suicide attempt, and emailed her aunt, telling her what she had done. Her aunt contacted the police, who found more than 5,800 prescription pills in the hotel room suite, according to the Associated Press.
Prosecutors reportedly said Jordan balanced her checkbook and transferred money out of her child’s trust fund as he lay dead.
During the trial, Jordan claimed she feared her first husband would kill her, and that her son would be given to her second husband, who she said had sexually abused the boy, according to prior Oxygen.com reporting. Both men denied the accusations.
Jordan had said she believed her son typed out the abuse allegations on a facilitated communication device, according to the Associated Press, and Jordan said her son’s death was a “mercy killing.”
