A millionaire who was convicted of manslaughter over the death of her eight-year-old has been found dead in her apartment.
The body of Gigi Jordan was discovered just hours after a supreme court justice issued an order that was expected to send the 62-year-old former pharmaceutical executive back to prison for the death of autistic Jude Mirra.
Although her cause of death is yet to be determined, sources have told the New York Post it is being investigated as a suspected suicide and a note was found at the scene.
Her body was found in her apartment in Brooklyn, New York, US, at around 12.30am on Friday December 30 2022.
In 2015 she was sentenced for first-degree manslaughter after using a crusher and syringe to administer an overdose of prescription pills to young Jude.
She claimed she had been acting in the best interest of her autistic son.
The court found her guilty of manslaughter rather than the top murder charge sought by prosecutors.
Judge Charles Solomon of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan handed down a sentence that was close to the maximum of 25 years' prison under New York guidelines.
He said he was mystified by the mother's lack of remorse.
"It's very difficult for me to understand the defendant," Solomon said.
"I certainly would think that I would hear something from the defendant expressing remorse about what she did - something."
In 2020 just five years later she was released to home confinement on a $250,000 bail bond while lawyers fought her conviction.
On Thursday, a day before Jordan's boday was found, US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order reversing a previous one from December 20 allowing Jordan to remain free on bail while the high court heard out her appeal, Law & Crime reported.
In a 30-minute statement read at her first trial, Jordan said: "I love Jude more than anything in this world.
"I believe that he lived and died in unbelievable agony."
Even though Mirra was unable to express himself well, Jordan's attorneys argued, he had told his mother that he was being sexually abused by his father, Emil Tzekov.
Tzekov, a yoga instructor who became Jordan's second ex-husband, denied the accusations.
Jordan said she feared she would be unable to protect her boy because her first husband, Philadelphia businessman Raymond Mirra Jr, planned to have her killed or institutionalized, and Tzekov would gain custody of her son.
