Millionaire pharma exec Gigi Jordan - who killed 8-year-old son - found dead ... trends now
Gigi Jordan, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of her eight-year-old son, was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment in what authorities are investigating as a possible suicide.
The news came just hours after US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order that was expected to send Jordan back to prison.
Jordan's body was discovered around 12:30am on Friday at her apartment in Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn
The cause of 62-year-old's death has not yet been determined, but sources said a note was found at the scene.
Gigi Jordan, 62, a millionaire pharmaceutical exec convicted of manslaughter in the 2010 death of her eight-year-old autistic son, was found dead in her home. She is pictured in 2011
Authorities are investigating the 62-year-old's death as a possible suicide. Her son, Jude Mirra was found dead in the $2,300-a-night hotel suite next to his mother in 2010
Jordan was convicted in 2014 of giving the eight-year-old a cocktail of Ambien and Xanax while the two were staying at the luxurious Peninsula Hotel
Jordan was accused of administering a fatal dose of pills to her autistic son, Jude Mirra, in February 2010 at the high-end Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue. She then made an unsuccessful attempt to take her own life.
During the trial, Jordan's defense team argued that she killed the boy while in a state of extreme emotional disturbance, fearing that he would be murdered by her ex-husband.
Jordan was acquitted of the top murder charge, but was found guilty of manslaughter in 2014.
Jordan was sentenced in 2015 to 18 years in prison, but her manslaughter conviction was overturned in 2020 due to a procedural error.
