Gigi Jordan, the pharmaceutical millionairess charged with fatally overdosing her 8-year-old son at the Peninsula hotel in 2010, has sued 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 one-milliliter blood sample — about one-fifth of a teaspoon — drawn at the hospital after she was discovered semi-conscious 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 told The Post today, referring to both Bellevue officials and prosecutors. “All they will say is, ‘It cannot be found.’
“But who is the last person to see it? Where was it?”
Kuby and co-counsel Alan Dershowitz say Jordan 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 hundreds of pages of 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.”
Given her expertise in drugs, Jordan could have easily succeeded in overdosing herself within the 12 hours between Jude dying and being discovered by cops, the prosecutor has argued.
Bellevue did not immediately respond to a request for comment.