Millionaire Mother Who Killed 8-Year-Old Son Found Dead Hours After Bail Revoked

A millionaire mother in Manhattan who was convicted of murdering her 8-year-old autistic son was found dead hours after U.S. Supreme Court ordered her to be sent back to prison.

Gigi Jordan, a 62-year-old pharmaceutical executive, was found dead at her apartment in Stuyvesant Heights at around 12:30 a.m. on Dec 30, hours after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor revoked Jordan's bail, which was granted a week prior, NBC New York reported.

Jordan had admitted to intentionally killing the nonverbal child, Jude Mirra by administering a lethal dose of medications to him in a hotel room in 2010. However, Jordan claimed that after killing him, she had also intended to take her own life to save him from what she believed was ongoing abuse.

During the trial, Jordan said she killed Mirra as she believed she was about to be murdered by one of her ex-husbands, and after her death, the child would be in the custody of her other ex-husband who would have sexually abused him. Jordan's ex-husbands, however, denied the allegations against them.

After a six-week trial in 2014, the Manhattan court accepted Jordan's claim of "extreme emotional disturbance" and found her guilty of manslaughter charges, sentencing her to 18 years in prison.

The sentencing was later overturned in 2020 due to a procedural misstep. The court ruled that while the procedural error did not harm her case, Jordan's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated, NY Post reported.

Jordan was released from prison on Dec. 9, 2020, and was ordered to be in home confinement on a $250,000 bond while she was pursuing her appeals.

Although officials have not revealed the exact cause of Jordan's death, they are investigating suicide as a possibility. The woman was reportedly found dead in a bathtub with a note nearby. Her body would be sent for an autopsy, officials said.

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