#Ex seeks at least $500,000 in legal fees from convicted child-killer

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Gigi Jordan at her sentencing in 2015.
John M. Mantel

The ex-husband of millionaire convict-mom Gigi Jordan, who’s serving an 18-year prison sentence for killing her autistic son, is going after his ex for at least $500,000 in legal fees, new court papers show.

Raymond Mirra says that he and Jordan ended their “highly lucrative business partnership” in March 2008 with Jordan walking away with $46.6 million and the pair signing a release barring them from bringing claims against each other for anything occurring before that date, according to a new Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

Despite this release, Jordan — who is locked up at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility — has been going after Mirra in court for seven years to recoup a nearly $6 million loan she claims Mirra and his company took from her in 2005 by forging her signature on wire transfers, the court papers from Thursday say.

Jordan — who amassed her wealth in the pharmaceutical industry — filed two lawsuits against Mirra for the money, both of which have since been dismissed with the latest one currently pending appeal.

Mirra is now seeking at least $500,000 to cover what it cost him to defend himself in the litigation, the court documents say.

Jordan was found guilty of killing her 8-year-old autistic son Jude Mirra — the adoptive son of Raymond Mirra — by force feeding him a fatal dose of prescription drugs in February 2010.

Jordan’s defense lawyers have said it was a mercy killing she conducted out of fear that Raymond was going to murder her after she discovered he’d bilked her and because she knew, she claimed, that he was connected to the mafia. If she died, Jude would have been left with his biological father, Emil Tzekov, who she believed would physically and sexually abuse Jude, her criminal defense lawyers have claimed.

In 2015, Mirra also sued Jordan for defamation claiming her trial testimony ruined his reputation. The case was settled roughly a year later.

Lawyers for Jordan and Mirra separately did not immediately return a request for comment.