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Officials found a Washington mom and daughter dead after not being heard from or seen by friends and family for over a week.
According to sources, Gigi Jordan was discovered dead in her New York residence after committing suicide.
Gigi Jordan, a multimillionaire pharmaceutical businesswoman, was discovered dead in her New York City residence in an apparent suicide.
Pharma Millionaire Guilty of Killing 8-Year-Old Son Found Dead
Jordan, 62, was convicted of murdering her autistic 8-year-old son in 2014 after she admitted to feeding him a lethal medication cocktail in 2010. Jordan said that the boy, Jude Mirra, had been sexually assaulted by his father and that she murdered him to protect him from future torture, as per Inside Edition.
The boy's father refuted this assertion. She was sentenced to 18 years in jail for manslaughter, but a federal court in New York granted her bail in 2020 while she fought her conviction.
Jordan was given bail when an appellate court determined that a legal mistake occurred during her conviction. The New York Police Department reported that the corpse of a 62-year-old woman was discovered in her apartment on Friday, but did not reveal her identity.
Norman Siegel, Jordan's attorney, told WNBC-TV that Jordan's death was "unbelievably tragic" and that his client "had much more to give to society." Siegel told the broadcaster that she sounded in excellent spirits when they spoke the night before her body was discovered.
The attorney did not reply to Inside Edition Digital's request for comment. According to local sources, the day before Jordan's death, the US Supreme Court withdrew her bail, and she seemed to be returning to prison.
Gigi Jordan Previously Claimed That Husband Tried to Kill Her
Jordan stated during the trial that she feared she would be unable to protect her son because her first husband, Philadelphia businessman Raymond Mirra Jr., intended to have her killed or institutionalized, and her second husband and Jude's biological father, Emil Tzekov, would gain custody of their son.
Raymond Mirra Jr., Jordan's first spouse, was a lifelong entrepreneur who had great success. Currently, he serves as managing partner of the Rx Depot, a drugstore chain he created in Philadelphia. On December 14, 1998, Jordan, a certified nurse, wed Mirra, with whom he had co-founded many wildly successful medical firms.
Jordan stated to the Daily News in 2012 that she was unaware of Mirra's tight links to the merciless Philadelphia mafia, with whom she believes he was involved in a major black market scam for HIV and hemophiliac prescription pharmaceuticals through his firm, Allion Healthcare of Melville, New York.
In 2015, Mirra sued Jordan for defamation, alleging that her evidence at trial destroyed his reputation. Mirra, according to the New York Post, claimed that Jordan's testimony that he stole from her and threatened to have her killed harmed his public image since she knew he was connected to the Mafia.
"Ms. Jordan testified that she poisoned Jude to death by feeding him over 50 pills of various prescription sedatives," according to the lawsuit.
"However, she attempted to mitigate her culpability by telling ludicrous lies about Mr. Mirra that, she claimed, diminished her responsibility for taking Jude's life." The matter was resolved approximately one year later, as reported by the New York Post.
Jordan, then 39, divorced Mirra in 2001 and conceived Jude with Bulgarian yoga instructor Emil Tzekov, whom she met at her Manhattan gym. Tzekov gave up his paternal rights to Jude. Nonetheless, he continued to visit Jude on occasion.
Mirra, who was still Jordan's spouse and business partner, adopted Jude legally. The divorce between Mirra and Jordan occurred in November 2001. Six days later, Jordan wed Tzekov, despite the fact that Jude's official adoptive father was Mirra. Jordan divorced Tzekov in 2006.
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