Last Saturday the Herald published a story headlined - Hotel guest checks out leaving $18,000 bill.
Gordon promptly got in touch with the hotel saying she'd changed her mind about paying - at least for now.
"Unfortunately we've been advised to hold payment for now as we are seeking legal advice regarding the NZ Herald article this morning."
The Herald hasn't heard from her and she hasn't responded to an email sent this week.
Gordon earlier declined to say where money to pay the bill would come from or how she currently made a living.
Gordon wrote: "I am reluctant to discuss my affairs with the media as the last article published by the NZ Herald concerning me was described by my legal team as 'a gross distortion of the facts'."
That story, published in 2005, was about her pleading guilty to eight fraud charges.
Gordon left the Surrey Hotel in February telling staff she was off to San Francisco on business. She has indicated she is living in Hong Kong.
She had stayed on and off at the Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn for more than two years and had paid bills with her father's credit card.
But her father, marine explorer Keith Gordon, told the hotel he should have been contacted before the credit card was used, and he had the payment cancelled.
King said she wrongly assumed Gordon's father would pay his daughter's last bill because he always had previously.
Gordon has previously claimed payment had been delayed by ill health and a typhoon.
King told the Herald she would have Gordon and the unpaid bill listed with a registry of bad debtors.
