A wrongful death lawsuit is filed against a Las Vegas Strip property for failing to perform lifesaving intervention on actor, Michael Heslin while dining at high end Mexican restaurant, ‘Aria and Javier’s’

A lawsuit claims that a Hallmark star's untimely death may have been avoided if workers at a Las Vegas restaurant had been ordered to stop performing CPR on the actor after having a sudden heart attack and 'collapsing' while dining with his husband and friends.

Michael Heslin, 35, who starred in "Lioness" and the TV movie "The Holiday Plan," had a medical emergency in June 2024, and his husband, Nicolas Wilson, filed a new wrongful death lawsuit on Sept. 18. The suit claims restaurant staff failed to perform any life-saving measures.

Staff at ‘Aria and Javier’s’, a high-end Mexican restaurant on the strip allegedly ‘forcefully interfered’ to stop a female diner from performing potentially life-saving CPR, despite Heslin ‘exhibiting obvious signs of a medical emergency,’ according to the lawsuit seen by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Restaurant staff also allegedly failed to retrieve an automated external defibrillator (AED) on hand at the premises the suit alleges.

Heslin’s friends, meanwhile, were ‘forcefully removed’ from the building as the Hallmark actor was dying, the suit claims.

A wrongful death lawsuit is filed against a Las Vegas Strip property for failing to perform lifesaving intervention on actor, Michael Heslin while dining at high end Mexican restaurant, ‘Aria and Javier’s’.

Heslin’s friends attempted to record the incident, but were confronted by employees who ‘demanded’ any videos be deleted, alleges the lawsuit.

‘Michael’s death was an avoidable tragedy,’ stated the lawsuit. ‘Defendant’s failures, individually and cumulatively, proximately caused or substantially contributed to Michael’s preventable death.’

Heslin died on July 2, 2024. The cause of death is not stated in the lawsuit.

The case accuses five counts of wrongful death, loss of consortium, carelessness, negligent hiring, retention, supervision, and training, and gross negligence.

Wilson seeks general and special damages in excess of $15,000, burial expenses, loss of consortium in excess of $15,000, punitive damages, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, interest, and any other remedy that the court deems just and proper.

MGM Resorts International, which operates Aria, has yet to reply to media inquiries for comment.

Pictured the Aria on Las Vegas strip.