Murder-for-hire equestrian Tatyana Remley is unrecognizable in mugshot as she starts 4 year prison sentence for hitman killing of her wealthy husband
A former model who tried to hire a hitman to kill her wealthy husband looks unrecognizable from her days as a glamorous horse rider in her new photo.
Tatyana Remley’s new mugshot comes as she begins her sentence in a California prison – three years and eight months – after admitting that she had tried one A $2 million impact on her estranged husband Mark Remley’s life.
The socialite, 43, appears with unkempt hair and no makeup to cover the bags under her eyes in the January 17 mugshot – a world away from her previous life of luxury.
Tatyana was charged in August after she was arrested in a sting operation by undercover officers in San Diego who she believed were hitmen.
She brought three firearms and an undisclosed cash bond to the meeting where she expected to plot the murder.
But she denied a plea to commit murder until she struck a deal with the San Diego district attorney’s office Thursday and was sentenced in Vista Superior Court.
Tatyana Remley looked unrecognizable in her new photo, taken on January 17, after she was sentenced to almost four years in prison for a failed murder plot against her husband
Future heiress Tatyana Remley has been sentenced to three years and eight months in California after admitting she tried to put a $2 million contract on her husband’s life.
Tatyana was arrested after admitting her plans to have him killed and his body taken to an undercover detective, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said.
Remley brought a cash deposit for the hit and three guns to a Starbucks meeting, prosecutors said
Tatjana had first asked a friend to kill her husband, but the friend then revealed her plan to Mark, who went to the police.
She and her husband, who inherited $26 million from his parents, had experienced a series of failed business ventures and a series of divorces and reconciliations until their final split in May 2022.
They were married for 12 years, during which time they were regular swingers and participated in a 2017 Showtime docuseries called Naked SNCTM.
Three weeks after filing for divorce, she was arrested and charged with solicitation of murder. She pleaded guilty on December 28 and could be eligible for parole in June 2025.
“Tatyana took care of everything, no matter what she said, he just followed her,” the couple’s former business partner Erik Martonovich told DailyMail.com
“Mark was like a sniveling, scared puppy, and I never saw Mark say no to her.”
Tatyana holds a leash around husband Mark Remley’s neck and leads him around a party
Remley was seen posing with her estranged husband’s luxury sports car
The couple made headlines a decade ago when they opened a “horse person acrobatics show” at the Del Mar Fairgrounds known as Valitar in 2012, which quickly went bankrupt.
The couple married in 2011 and had already filed divorce papers against each other before finding fame the following year with an equestrian circus show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, based on the famous Cirque de Soleil.
But the ‘Valitar’ show was a spectacular flop, collapsing into bankruptcy after just five of its planned 45 performances.
Tatyana, who claimed to be Russian and have a background in dressage, courted publicity and insisted on appearing in the show despite her mediocre riding skills.
“She didn’t do any of the stunts,” hospitality manager Roza Tabasa told The San Diego Union-Tribune.
“But eventually, when the whole cast is lined up and everyone is clapping, this blonde lady comes to the center, the other cast members say goodbye to her and there is a silence.
‘People think, ‘Who is she? Oh, it’s the lady on the poster.’
In fact, Tatyana was a mother of two from Bend, Oregon, who had dropped out of high school in the fourth grade and had a string of failed hookups with wealthy men behind her.
Las Vegas-based equestrian showman Erik Martonovich (left) told DailyMail.com: ‘Tatyana took care of everything. Whatever she said went. And he just followed her around. Mark was like a sniveling, scared puppy.” Martonovich is depicted with Tatyana and Mark
Remley in a promotional ad for their failed horse show in the San Diego area
It would take a long time: Tatjana asked for $15,000 a month in spousal support in her divorce filings to continue her lavish lifestyle, which she admitted was ‘comfortable’
The couple’s $5.3 million home, located in posh Del Mar, California. Mark — who reportedly inherited $26 million from his parents — moved into the current Del Mar property with Tatyana before the fire.
And she was already fighting for custody of the son she shared with multimillionaire biotech magnate Kenneth Woolcott, whom she divorced in 2004 after just 11 months of marriage.
“She was very, ‘Look how beautiful I am,’” Martonovich said.
“The personality she wanted to portray to the world was that she is a beautiful Russian supermodel. And maybe supermodel with a touch of Barbie.
‘I don’t think she’s really Russian, nor is she a supermodel. But I’m pretty sure she’s good at being a gold digger.”
The former model claimed her husband had ‘tried to kill her’ on several occasions with a knife and held a gun to her head, and claims he has a history of ‘verbal abuse, drug abuse and has very dangerous friends’.
Remley has denied abusing his wife.