August 25, 2025
The fashion designer who was found dead on a boat in Montauk

The fashion designer who was found dead on a boat in Montauk

While the cause of death for the late fashion designer Martha Nolan O’Slatarra was not officially announced, the interest of the public in her life and the circumstances of her death will continue.

While the investigators continue to investigate and try to save leads, O’Slatarra attracts a lot of examination and speculation about news and social media.

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The designer, born in Irish, was found on a docked boat on August 5 after a man who reported an unconscious woman in the Montauk Yacht Club was made. According to officials from Suffolk County Police Department, good Samaritan tried to carry out an HLW at O’Slatarra.

The 33-year-old was designated for a long beach, ny registered ship for “ripple”. Last week, the Suffolk County police authority, who took over the investigation by the police department of East Hampton, did not give any signs of violence based on a preliminary investigation.

An autopsy is carried out by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office. According to a representative, the cause of death was not announced in this office. The Suffolk County police authority had not recognized a media application regarding the official cause of death on Tuesday afternoon.

O’Slatarra recently handled a pop-up shop in the Gurney’s Resort in Montauk for her four-year-old bikinis and lifestyle brand East X East. The designer was originally referred to as “a farmer’s family” in the municipality of Carlow, Ireland, and acquired a master’s degree in digital marketing at the University College Dublin, where she had previously completed a bachelor’s degree. She moved to the USA about 10 years ago and worked in a number of technical jobs before concentrating on fashion. O’Slatarra had lived in the Upper East Side in Manhattan in the Yorkville district.

In addition to the management of her own company, Oslatarra acted as a director of operations at K4 Capital Management and Chief Executive Officers of brand growth consultants.

O’Slatarra reported on August 4th to the Montauk Yacht Club to meet the independent insurance agent Christopher Durnan, who allegedly invested 200,000 US dollars in her company. Media inquiries to Durnan, who headed the Durnan Group, Inc., who is based in Rockville Center, ny -based Durnan Group, were not returned on Tuesday afternoon.

The designer based in Manhattan was also in the process of divorcing from her husband Sam Ryan. His divorce lawyer David Centeno rejected it to comment on private details of this matter due to his lawyer’s confidentiality obligations. Centeno said that the last papers had been presented to the court before O’Slatarra’s death.

However, Centeno said that in contrast to a published report, neither he nor someone in his company based in New York took measures before the court as a financial agreement after their death. He said: “This is categorically wrong. In order to correct the recording, the only lawsuit that my company took after submitting the last divorce papers was to inform Miss O’Slatarra’s death so that no divorce was issued. Hey, one of them has died. [papers]”Because that could do a real chaos.”

Ryan could not be reached for a comment on Tuesday.

O’Slatarra’s friend, who was supposedly Nicholas Dirubio, was reportedly outside the city when she was in Montauk. Dirubio from WWD on Tuesday and said: “No comment. Please lose my number” and put on.

Dirubio is Vice President for Sales and Sales at Stand Wellness Distribution. O’Slatarra is listed as a marketing manager on the company’s website. The well -known doctor in integrative medicine Jeffrey A. Morrison is a founding partner of the company.

The latest reporting on the media also referred to a complaint that O’Slatarra and her friend Dylan Grace had submitted to Out Out Eyewear founder Jeremy Valeda. In autumn 2020, O’Slatarra started a 17-month run in the company as Chief Marketing Officer. On Tuesday, Valeda and his lawyer did not respond to media inquiries or the lawyer, who represented Grace and O’Slatarra on this matter.

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