Do you have someone to impress on Valentine's Day, a bathing suit, and oh, $1,500 handy? Then the Peninsula Hotel's Valentine's Day dinner package might be for you: The Fifth Avenue hotel is offering only one couple the chance to splurge on a five-course meal with a chance to swim in its pool. And it'll be really private. The hotel says, "The entire pool area, located on the 22nd floor and featuring views of the sparkling city skyline, will be reserved for the use of the couple to enjoy a five-course meal paired with a bottle of vintage Champagne and followed by a dip in the pool."
Peninsula Hotel Offers $1,500 Valentine's Dinner And Private Swim To Just One Couple
Murder-Suicide Mom's Crazy Letter Revealed in Court
Rapists, kiddie porno and plotting thieves all figure into socialite Gigi Jordan’s suicide note, but as far as officials are concerned, they’re all fabricated. The letter—found on her laptop after she allegedly fed her autistic son a fatal dose of prescription pills and attempted to kill herself—was revealed in court yesterday. Much of her paranoia focused on her ex-husband: "I feel his final revenge will be to kill [m]e and use [our son] in the sex trade," she wrote. According the defense the wild 20-page letter is evidence Jordan should be allowed out on bond to undergo psychiatric treatment at St. Vincent's.
Mom Pleads Not Guilty To Killing Son, Might Plead Insanity
The mother accused of killing her 8-year-old son in a botched murder-suicide attempt in a Midtown hotel pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges today. Speaking in what was described as "a mousy voice," socialite and pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan made the plea via video from her bed in Elmhurst Hospital, where she has been held since she was discovered "babbling incoherently" beside the body of her child earlier this month.
Murder-Suicide Mom "Must Have Felt She Had No Support"
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."
Murder-Suicide Mom "Felt Helpless"
The father of the autistic boy found dead at the Peninsula Hotel Friday—allegedly killed by his mother—says Gigi Jordan was a totally devoted mom. “She was not a killer," said Emil Tzekov through tears. ... I cannot understand." Jordan, a successful pharmaceutical rep, even quit her job to be a better parent to little Jude. OK, not everything was copacetic: Tzekov, a successful yoga instructor, revealed that he hadn’t seen his son since 2007 because Jordan blocked his emails and cut off service to her cell phone.
Hot Bathrooms To Be In
The New York Post dispatches its own Post Potty Patrol to report on the best bathrooms at restaurants and clubs in the city. The bathrooms they choose? The ones at XL, bar 89, Tao (we were familiar with the pachinko machines in the ladies' room, apparently the men's room is the place to be), Jekyll & Hyde, Dusk, Noa, and Glass, plus the ones at Jay-Z's 40/40 . Gothamist is very familiar with various bathrooms in the city, we'd like to add that the bathrooms at Brasserie are cool, with that orange resin trough/sink. And at the shared trough sink (must be a brasserie thing) at Pastis, we washed hands next to Jean-Georges.

