Style Designer Discovered Lifeless in Montauk Was About to Divorce

Whereas the reason for demise for the late dressmaker Martha Nolan O’Slatarra has not been formally introduced, the general public’s curiosity in her life and the circumstances of her demise proceed.

As investigators proceed to look at the case and attempt to reel in leads, O’Slatarra’s profession and demise are attracting a lot scrutiny and hypothesis by way of information reviews and social media.

The Irish-born designer was discovered on Aug. 5 on a docked boat, after a 911 name had been positioned by a person who reported an unconscious lady on the Montauk Yacht Membership. Good Samaritans had tried to carry out CPR on O’Slatarra, in keeping with officers on the Suffolk County Police Division.

The 33-year-old was pronounced useless on what was mentioned to be a Lengthy Seaside, N.Y.-registered vessel known as the “Ripple.” Final week, the Suffolk County Police Division, which took over the investigation from the East Hampton Police Division, mentioned there have been no indicators of violence based mostly on a preliminary investigation.

An post-mortem is being performed by the Suffolk County medical expert’s workplace. The reason for demise has not been introduced, in keeping with a consultant in that workplace. The Suffolk County Police Division had not acknowledged a media request Tuesday afternoon relating to the official reason for demise.

O’Slatarra had not too long ago wound down a pop-up store on the Gurney’s Resort in Montauk for her four-year-old bikinis and way of life model East x East. Initially from what the Irish media described as “a farming household” locally of Carlow, Eire, the designer earned a grasp’s diploma in digital advertising on the College School Dublin, the place she had additionally picked up a bachelor’s diploma in commerce earlier than that. She moved to the U.S. about 10 years in the past and labored in a sequence of tech-related jobs earlier than specializing in style. O’Slatarra had been residing within the Yorkville neighborhood of the Higher East Facet in Manhattan.

Together with heading up her personal firm, O’Slatarra acted as director of operations at K4 Capital Administration and chief govt officer of Model Progress Consultants.

O’Slatarra reportedly went to the Montauk Yacht Membership on Aug. 4 to fulfill with impartial insurance coverage agent Christopher Durnan, who is alleged to have invested $200,000 in her firm. Media requests to Durnan, who runs the Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Durnan Group, Inc., had been unreturned Tuesday afternoon.

The Manhattan-based designer was additionally within the means of divorcing her husband Sam Ryan. His divorce lawyer David Centeno declined to remark about any personal particulars of that matter, resulting from his attorney-client confidentiality obligations. Centeno mentioned that the ultimate papers had been submitted to the court docket previous to O’Slatarra’s demise.

Nonetheless, Centeno mentioned that opposite to a printed report, neither he nor anybody at his New York-based agency took any actions within the court docket as a monetary settlement step following her demise. He mentioned, “That’s categorically false. To appropriate the report, the one motion that my agency took after submitting the ultimate divorce papers was to promptly notify the court docket of Miss O’Slatarra’s passing in order that no judgment of divorce can be issued. I took no different authorized motion relating to her demise. That’s fairly easy. It’s what an lawyer is obligated to do, in the event that they study of one of many events’ deaths. It’s important to let the court docket know, ‘Hey, one among them died. Don’t go forward and signal the divorce [papers]’ as a result of that would create an actual mess.”

Ryan couldn’t be reached for remark Tuesday.

O’Slatarra’s boyfriend, who was reportedly Nicholas DiRubio, was reportedly out-of-town, when she was in Montauk. Reached by WWD Tuesday, DiRubio mentioned, “No remark. Please lose my quantity” and hung up the telephone.

DiRubio is vice chairman of gross sales and distribution at StandWellness Distribution. O’Slatarra is listed on the corporate’s website as head of selling. The well-known medical physician in integrative drugs Jeffrey A. Morrison is a founding accomplice on the firm.

Latest media protection additionally referenced a lawsuit that O’Slatarra and her good friend Dylan Grace had filed towards Out East Eyewear founder Jeremy Valeda. Within the fall of 2020, O’Slatarra began a 17-month run on the firm as chief advertising officer. Valeda and his lawyer didn’t reply to media requests Tuesday, nor did the lawyer, who represented Grace and O’Slatarra in that matter.