Overview
- The Nolan-O’Slatarra family filed a $50 million wrongful-death action in New York Supreme Court on Aug. 6, 2026, naming yacht owner Christopher Durnan and alleging he intentionally assaulted the 33-year-old.
- Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was found unresponsive on a boat at the Montauk Yacht Club and pronounced dead in the early hours of Aug. 5, 2025, according to emergency responders and contemporaneous reports.
- Family lawyers say a privately commissioned second autopsy disputes an overdose explanation and that EMT reports describe blood on her mouth, head and chest, details the suit highlights as evidence of foul play.
- Durnan denies wrongdoing through his lawyer, who says he tried to perform CPR and has not been charged, while Suffolk County investigators have not released a final cause of death and the criminal probe remains open.
- The civil case seeks compensatory and punitive damages for conscious pain and suffering and could prompt new forensic review and public disclosure of records that family lawyers say were withheld or delayed.