How did Gigi Jordan die? Cause of death revealed for millioniare mom who killed 8-yr-old autistic son
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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: The multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan, who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old son, allegedly killed herself by placing a plastic bag filled with nitrogen gas over her head, according to the city's medical examiner's office.
The 62-year-old was found dead inside her Brooklyn home at around 12.30 am on December 30, just hours after US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a decision that was expected to send Jordan back to jail. The death was ruled a suicide by the NYC's Chief Medical Examiner on Wednesday. Its reported that "asphyxia caused by the displacement of oxygen by nitrogen gas and the covering of the head with a plastic bag" was the cause. Jordan's lawyer Norman Siegel commented on her death, saying, "It's unbelievably sad. Gigi Jordan had a lot to offer society. In the end, she did not have her opportunity to contribute to society."
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This comes more than a decade after Jordan was accused of feeding her 8-year-old autistic son, Jude Mirra, a lethal amount of pills mixed with alcohol and orange juice in an opulent suite at the Peninsula Hotel in February 2010. The mother's defense claimed during the six-week trial that she killed the boy out of concern that her ex-husband would kill the boy.
Jordan was convicted of manslaughter in 2014, although a Manhattan jury acquitted her of the primary murder charge. In 2015, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but in 2020, a federal judge overturned her conviction due to a procedural error.
On December 9, 2020, Jordan was released from prison after serving more than ten years of her sentence. During the course of her trial, a federal judge at the time ordered her released on $250,000 bail to house arrest. The day before Jordan was found dead, Sonia Sotomayor reversed an earlier ruling December 20 that had allowed her to be released on bail while the Supreme Court considered her appeal.
