Jordan, real name Pamela Rooke and also 5ft 1in, was then 20 and part of the Bromley Contingent of punks who followed the Pistols.
Vicious was then got arrested and charged with murder.
They moved into the Chelsea Hotel, which had once been a Mecca for writers and artists - Dylan Thomas, Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan had all once lived there - but by the late 1970s, was little more than a sprawling drugs den populated by users.