Exclusive | NYC fashion designer found dead on Montauk yacht was cold, bloodied when EMTs arrived: medical report

Hamptons fashion entrepreneur Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was cold to the touch, turning purple, and with her mouth, chest and back of her head covered in blood when medics found her aboard a boat in Montauk, according to documents The Post obtained on the one-year anniversary of her death.The Montauk Fire Department patient care record for the Irish-born 33-year-old founder of East x East also noted purpling on her lips and under her nailbeds as well as blood on the floor near her body.“Boat was quite warm but [patient] was cool to the touch with nail beds that were purple with slight purpling around lips,” a note from the EMT report read.The body “had dried blood in oral, head and chest area.No active bleeding observed or obvious sources of trauma.
First arriving EMT noted blood potentially from the back of head area when EMT positioned head to open airway and begin” resuscitation efforts and administer oxygen, the report said.The report notes an “additional male” was on the scene at the time of the cardiac arrest.That person, not identified in the report, told EMTs that he was in bed with Nolan-O’Slatarra and called 911 when he was unable to wake her up, the report stated.Boat owner Chris Durnan is the only person to have been previously confirmed as being on the scene and last seeing her alive.He was reportedly spotted running for help down the Montauk Yacht Club dock completely nude at roughly midnight on Aug.
5, 2025.“Do something!” the naked man screamed, good Samaritans later told The Post.Lawyers for Durnan told New York Magazine that he stripped down naked because he was soaked in Nolan-O’Slattara’s vomit.
EMTs did not note any vomit in their report.The EMT report noted Nolan-O’Slatarra was unresponsive the entire time they were on the scene.An autopsy commissioned by Nolan-O’Slatarra’s family revealed that only trace amounts of cocaine were found in her system, according to the family’s lawyer.The Suffolk County Medical ...