NYC pharma exec cause of death revealed after millionaire ordered back to prison for killing of autistic son

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The cause of death for Gigi Jordan, the multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son inside an upscale New York City hotel room, was revealed on Wednesday. 

Jordan, 62, was found dead on Dec. 30 inside the Brooklyn home she rented at around 12:30 a.m. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had issued an order hours earlier revoking Jordan’s bail. On Wednesday, the manner of death was ruled a suicide, according to reports. 

The cause of death was “asphyxia by covering of head with plastic bag and displacement of oxygen by nitrogen gas,” the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled, according to the New York Post. 

NYC MILLIONAIRE PHARMA EXECUTIVE CONVICTED OF KILLING AUTISTIC SON FOUND DEAD AFTER SUPREME COURT REVOKES BAIL 

Gigi Jordan appears on the witness stand during cross-examination by the prosecutor during her trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. 
(Jefferson Siegel/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

The 62-year-old was convicted of manslaughter in 2014 in connection to the death of her son, Jude Mirra. 

The socialite from Belgium allegedly admitted to using a syringe to plunge a lethal cocktail of painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol and orange juice down the boy’s throat inside their $2,300-a-night suite at the luxury Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan in February 2010.

Part of her defense was that she intended a murder-suicide, as Jordan had also ingested several medications and contacted a relative, who reportedly alerted authorities.

A gurney allegedly with the with body of socialite Gigi Jordan’s 8-year-old son Jude Michael Mirra, is wheeled out of the Peninsula Hotel February 5, 2010 in New York City. According to reports, the boy was found dead in a room of the luxury hotel after an alleged botched murder-suicide involving the boy’s mother. 
(Arnaldo Magnani/Getty Images)

During her weeks-long Manhattan Supreme Court trial, Jordan’s defense claimed the woman admitted to killing the boy because she was afraid her ex-husband was going to murder him. But prosecutors argued that as her autistic son was dying, she used her laptop to pull $125,000 from his trust fund, New York Daily News reported. 

She was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 years in prison. 

Accused child killer Gigi Jordan speaks to the Daily News at Rikers Island. 
(Craig Warga/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

After a decade behind bars, a Manhattan federal judge in 2020 granted $250,000 bond for Jordan but ordered that the millionaire remain on home confinement amid her appeals for a new trial. Her request centered on a legal technicality, citing 15 minutes during which the courtroom was briefly closed to the public during her trial. 

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Lower courts have maintained that Jordan’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was not infringed upon.

Hours before Jordan was found dead, Sotomayor reversed course on a Dec. 20 decision, effectively ordering Jordan to return to prison while the appeal process played out in a higher court. 

Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.