The Manhattan socialite accused of killing her son in a failed murder-suicide attempt had became increasingly detached as she tried to find a way to treat her 8-year-old boy's autism, friends said. "When she had Jude, she found herself a character in an Aristotelian tragedy, in that the baby was severely autistic," said Dr. Marcus Conant, a longtime friend of Gigi Jordan. "She felt she had to to fix his problem ... She went to clinics all over the country looking for a treatment, grasping at straws."
And after severing ties from friends and developing medical problems of her own in the past few months, Conant told the Daily News that the once "vivacious" pharmaceutical multimillionaire might have concluded: "'the only way I can save him is if we both die.'" Jordan allegedly fed her son a cocktail of ground-up prescription pills including Xanax in a room at Fifth Avenue's posh Peninsula hotel. She is being held in the psychiatric ward at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, and has been charged with second-degree murder.
Jude's father, Emil Tzekov, will travel from his California home to claim the boy's body. "It's killing me just to know that he's alone in the morgue with nobody even to say, 'That's Jude.' As soon as I can connect with all the right people, I am going to bring him here to bury him. I want to be able to visit him," said Tzekov, who gave up custody in 2001. He told the Post that Jordan "must have felt she had no support ... Think of it: She had money and all the right connections. And to see him still suffering. He was a good boy, but sometimes he would bang his head on the floor and scream and scream. He was in pain. His immune system was attacking his brain. She must have felt helpless."
