Gigi Jordan, the pharmaceutical millionaire charged with fatally overdosing her 8-year-old son at The Peninsula hotel in 2010, is suing Bellevue Hospital over a missing sample of her blood — a sample she insists is critical to her defense against murder charges.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks unspecified money damages from the hospital, along with the blood sample itself.
Prosecutors have said only that Bellevue has been unable to provide them with the small sample, drawn at the hospital after she was discovered semiconscious at the side of her 12-hours-dead son, Jude, in a $2,300-a-night suite.
“They won’t explain what happened,” defense lawyer Ron Kuby said. “All they will say is, ‘It cannot be found.’ ”
Kuby and co-counsel Alan Dershowitz say Jordan had intended to kill both her son and herself that night, and that her blood is crucial to proving that she had stuffed herself full of hydrocodone and benzodiazepines.
Jordan believed that killing herself and her son would be the only escape from a hell of sex abuse and death threats by the boy’s biological and adoptive fathers, she has claimed in court documents.
Lead prosecutor Kerry O’Connell has alleged in court that Jordan is a calculated killer who was only faking suicide — and whose first words upon being discovered in the room were, “I want an attorney.”