Gigi Jordan, the millionaire pharma executive was discovered dead in her Brooklyn home on Friday, December 30, 2022. Her body was found at 12:30 am in her Stuyvesant Heights apartment. 

Authorities have not yet confirmed Jordan’s cause of death, though suicide was considered highly probable, reported New York Times. The probe into Jordan’s death is currently ongoing.

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Who was Gigi Jordan?

Gigi Jordan was born in 1960 in Fort Lauderdale, California. She worked as a nurse before she started her entrepreneurial journey. She eventually emerged as an executive within the pharmaceutical industry.

The New York socialite made headlines first after she allegedly administered a fatal dose of painkillers to her son back in 2010. It was reported that her 8-year-old son, Jade Mirra was a non-verbal autistic child.

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Before being accused of murdering her son, Jude Mirra, she was recognised as a socialite who became a millionaire in the pharmaceutical industry. 

In response to the allegations, Jordan’s defenders claimed that she committed the murder as she was in extreme mental distress. They attributed the distress to the problems she was having with her two former husbands, reported New York Post.

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The court subsequently acceded to the plea that Jordan had been under mental duress when the crime was committed. Thus, the original murder charge was dropped and reduced to manslaughter. She was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2014. Later, the sentence was overturned in 2018 due to supposed errors in the judicial process.

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Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Charles Solomon upheld that Jordan had killed her cognitively challenged son even though her wealth meant that she had required resources to care for him. While imposing the original sentence, the judge stated, “She had all the money in the world to help Jude but she wound up taking his life.”