Hamptons style entrepreneur Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra stated she was being “harassed” and accused of fraud by financier Chris Durnan simply days earlier than she was discovered useless on his boat, texts obtained by The Put up reveal.
The 33-year-old Irish-born swimwear designer had Durnan blocked on her cellphone on Aug. 1, 2025, when he unleashed fiery textual content messages at her East x East enterprise associate Dylan Grace accusing the pair of fraud.
Nolan-O’Slattara promised Grace she would meet with Durnan — who had purchased roughly 13% of their firm in 2022 for $250,000 — to deal with the claims of monetary misbehavior.
across the time he first invested in her firm East x East. Obtained by the NY Put up
“Oh god . . . I’ll meet him Monday,” Nolan-O’Slatarra assured Grace, based on display screen pictures of the alternate supplied to The Put up.
“Are you able to unblock him for the weekend,” Grace requested. Martha replied, “Did it.”
The subsequent day, Nolan-O’Slatarra, who had blocked Durnan from calling her months earlier, complained that Durnan was aggressively messaging her.
“I’m getting harassed,” Nolan-O’Slatarra wrote to Grace on Aug. 2. “He gained’t cease texting me like 10 instances.”
The Irish-born magnificence wrote that Durnan was saying “shite such as you ghosting me” and that Durnan was “searching for consideration such a child.”
Two days later, on Aug. 4, Nolan-O’Slatarra met Durnan for a enterprise assembly. It will finish in her dying.
by investor Chris Durnan simply three days earlier than she was discovered useless
on his boat. dylanpgrace/instagram
Nolan-O’Slatarra met Durnan on his boat “Hell in a Bucket” at about 7:30 p.m. on the Montauk Yacht Membership and the 2 took the boat out for a tour and drank champagne at sundown, which was at 8:08 p.m. that evening, based on a New York Journal report.
The pair then returned at an unknown time to the yacht membership and moved to Durnan’s different boat, “Ripple,” the journal reported.
What transpired remains to be the topic of a police investigation.
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EMTs who responded to the boat at midnight discovered Nolan-O’Slattara useless — chilly to the contact, coated in blood, and purpling beneath her nailbeds.
She was fully clothed on a mattress on the boat, whereas Durnan was stark bare on the dock, the place he had hailed one other man, who known as 911 and carried out CPR, based on an EMT report obtained by The Put up.
Durnan has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection together with her dying and he has additionally denied any involvement.
His lawyer claimed to New York Journal that Durnan ditched his garments as a result of they have been coated in Nolan-O’Slattara’s vomit, however the EMT report made no point out of vomit. His garments have been by no means recovered.
A photograph obtained by The Put up confirmed the pair on apparently good phrases on Nov. 11, 2022.
Within the picture, snapped at roughly the time when he was investing, Nolan-O’Slatarra and Durnan sit smiling at a desk coated in drinks, together with champagne flutes and empty glasses of Guinness.
Nolan-O’Slatarra’s household filed a $50 million wrongful dying lawsuit towards Durnan in Manhattan Supreme Court docket.
“For months previous to that assembly, Martha had him blocked from messaging and solely unblocked him on the request of her enterprise associate to attempt to assuage Durnan’s complaints concerning the enterprise,” stated Mike Bowe, lawyer for Brithem LLP, which is representing Nolan-O’Slatarra’s household of their swimsuit towards Durnan.
“She agreed to fulfill him. She died at that assembly.”
The property of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra opened up a tip line on Thursday in search of info that will assist the investigation into her dying.
Dylan Grace didn’t reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
The Put up additionally reached out to Chris Durnan and his lawyer, Robert Holdman. Neither responded to requests for remark.
