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

As investigators continue to examine the case and try to reel in leads, O’Slatarra’s career and death are attracting much scrutiny and speculation via news reports and social media.

The Irish-born designer was found on Aug. 5 on a docked boat, after a 911 call had been placed by a man who reported an unconscious woman at the Montauk Yacht Club. Good Samaritans had attempted to perform CPR on O’Slatarra, according to officials at the Suffolk County Police Department.

The 33-year-old was pronounced dead on what was said to be a Long Beach, N.Y.-registered vessel called the “Ripple.” Last week, the Suffolk County Police Department, which took over the investigation from the East Hampton Police Department, said there were no signs of violence based on a preliminary investigation.

An autopsy is being conducted by the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office. The cause of death has not been announced, according to a representative in that office. The Suffolk County Police Department had not acknowledged a media request Tuesday afternoon regarding the official cause of death.

O’Slatarra had recently wound down a pop-up shop at the Gurney’s Resort in Montauk for her four-year-old bikinis and lifestyle brand East x East. Originally from what the Irish media described as “a farming family” in the community of Carlow, Ireland, the designer earned a master’s degree in digital marketing at the University College Dublin, where she had also picked up a bachelor’s degree in commerce before that. She moved to the U.S. about 10 years ago and worked in a series of tech-related jobs before focusing on fashion. O’Slatarra had been living in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side in Manhattan.

Along with heading up her own company, O’Slatarra acted as director of operations at K4 Capital Management and chief executive officer of Brand Growth Consultants.

O’Slatarra reportedly went to the Montauk Yacht Club on Aug. 4 to meet with independent insurance agent Christopher Durnan, who is said to have invested $200,000 in her company. Media requests to Durnan, who runs the Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Durnan Group, Inc., were unreturned Tuesday afternoon.

The Manhattan-based designer was also in the process of divorcing her husband Sam Ryan. His divorce attorney David Centeno declined to comment about any private details of that matter, due to his attorney-client confidentiality obligations. Centeno said that the final papers had been submitted to the court prior to O’Slatarra’s death.

However, Centeno said that contrary to a published report, neither he nor anyone at his New York-based firm took any actions in the court as a financial settlement step following her death. He said, “That is categorically false. To correct the record, the only action that my firm took after submitting the final divorce papers was to promptly notify the court of Miss O’Slatarra’s passing so that no judgment of divorce would be issued. I took no other legal action regarding her death. That is pretty straightforward. It’s what an attorney is obligated to do, if they learn of one of the parties’ deaths. You have to let the court know, ‘Hey, one of them died. Don’t go ahead and sign the divorce [papers]’ because that could create a real mess.”

Ryan could not be reached for comment 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 said, “No comment. Please lose my number” and hung up the phone.

DiRubio is vice president of sales and distribution at StandWellness Distribution. O’Slatarra is listed on the company’s site as head of marketing. The well-known medical doctor in integrative medicine Jeffrey A. Morrison is a founding partner at the company.

Recent media coverage also referenced a lawsuit that O’Slatarra and her friend Dylan Grace had filed against Out East Eyewear founder Jeremy Valeda. In the fall of 2020, O’Slatarra started a 17-month run at the company as chief marketing officer. Valeda and his attorney did not respond to media requests Tuesday, nor did the attorney, who represented Grace and O’Slatarra in that matter.