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Former Reality TV Swinger Found Dead After Hiring Hitman to Kill Her Rich Husband

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Tue Jan 27 2026

The owners of the horse show, Valitar, are a wealthy, conventionally attractive couple called the Remley’s. Mark Remley is a little bit older. Perhaps nerdy, but the type of guy to get into peak shape later in life. Tatyana Remley is his wife with bottle blonde hair and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model body. She’s also the main star of the Valitar horse show. The Remley’s invested over $20 million dollars into the show, just to lose every single penny of it after multiple scandals back to back. Allegedly, horses were abandoned with nothing to eat and massive creative differences led to performers quitting. Former staff members would come out to allege that Tatyana Remley doesn’t even know how to ride a horse that well… Later, the couple is featured on TV as a well known swinger’s couple, a pillar in the local sex-swinging community. That’s just a side quest though; the most scandalous thing that happened at Valitar was the decapitated horse head on the Remley’s marital...

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Episode Title

Former Reality TV Swinger Found Dead After Hiring Hitman to Kill Her Rich Husband
Host: Stephanie Soo
Date: January 27, 2026

Episode Overview

This darkly fascinating Rotten Mango episode, hosted by Stephanie Soo, explores the turbulent, scandal-filled life and mysterious death of Tatiana Remley—a wealthy socialite and former reality TV "swinger." The saga delves into failed business ventures, involvement in high-end sex clubs, tumultuous marriages, messy divorces, arson, attempted murder-for-hire, and Tatiana’s own violent end. Stephanie unpacks the psychological and interpersonal chaos underpinning Tatiana’s story, ponders her motives, and leaves listeners questioning where the line lies between victim and perpetrator.

Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. Valitar—The $20 Million Failed Horse Show

[00:45–07:17]

Tatiana and husband Mark Remley ("a hot rich couple from Southern California") launch Valitar, a horse show blending Cirque du Soleil and equestrian stunts, investing $20 million.
Tatiana, despite mediocre equestrian skills, is placed as the star, forcing professionals to downgrade their performances.
The show is a spectacular failure, leaving cast and horses stranded and unpaid.
Extravagant spending on Tatiana’s costumes and advertising, but stinginess when horses require medical care.

“Some people said that they were willing to spend unreasonable amounts of money on billboard advertisements with Tatiana's face everywhere... But then when a horse would get injured, they would cheapen out.” — Stephanie Soo, [04:20]

2. Wealth, Sex Clubs, & Reality TV

[07:18–19:09]

Mark and Tatiana are regulars at the elite Hollywood sex club, Sanctum, even participating in its reality show under the pseudonyms "Vladimir and Ileana".
Their lifestyle is intertwined with the club’s ethos—open sexuality, partner-swapping, and high-status attendees (e.g., rumored member Gwyneth Paltrow).
The show documents “bizarre” erotic dinner parties with performance art and explicit acts.
The club’s founder, Damon, offers a window into Sanctum’s world and the Remleys’ dynamic, casting Tatiana as "performative" and possibly inauthentic.

“Tatiana is just staring lovingly at her husband as if he just discovered quantum physics... I'm all about pushing limits.” — Stephanie Soo, [11:41]

Notable Quotes from Club Scenes

“Sex is the center of our universe and everything we derive around it and it revolves around it.” — Mark Remley, [14:08]
“There's something enticing about their energy... I cannot stop myself. Like all the taboos of this world, everything just dissolves in their energy.” — Tatiana Remley, [14:32]

3. Tatiana’s Past: Fabricated Persona and Relationship Patterns

[27:28–32:29]

Tatiana's real name may be Tanya; her Russian identity is speculated as an affectation.
Her ex-husband Ken Wolcott describes a childhood in rural Oregon, possible involvement with a cult-like religious group, social isolation, and lack of formal education.
Tatiana has a pattern of seeking and depending on wealthy partners; friends describe her as an enigma, possibly shaped by trauma.

“Tatiana is perhaps a persona that she made up. And maybe it came from childhood trauma... She just needs a character that she would become that wasn't tortured.” — Stephanie Soo, [29:44]

4. Relationship with Mark Remley: Toxic Codependency and Financial Ruin

[32:29–37:08]

Mark appears besotted, indulging Tatiana's every whim—business, sexual, financial.
After Valitar, further failed ventures include a cycling studio making just $51k in a year and a women's polo team ending abruptly after Tatiana is injured in the opening match.
Mark files for bankruptcy amidst lavish spending and mounting debts.

“He did whatever she said. Didn't matter if it was a good idea, bad idea, made no difference... He just threw money at whatever it is she wanted to do. He was her dog.” — Mutual friend, [37:08]

5. Divorce, Downward Spiral, and Murder Plot

[37:53–43:32]

As the marriage collapses, divorce proceedings become fiercely contested. Tatiana, dissatisfied as her “allowance” drops from $50,000/month to $12–15,000/month, sues for more support and property.
Their Del Mar mansion burns in a suspicious fire; Tatiana is found at the scene with three guns and ammunition.
Tatiana solicits a mutual friend to kill Mark for $2 million, using a potential payout from his own assets—a request promptly reported to police, leading to Tatiana’s arrest during a sting at Starbucks.

“She would be using Mark Remy’s money to kill Mark Remy to get the rest of Mark Remy’s money.” — Stephanie Soo, [34:07]

Mark continues seeing Tatiana even after her release from jail for the murder-for-hire plot.
[43:56]: Serious accusations are leveled in divorce court: Tatiana alleges Mark orchestrated her sexual assault during a home invasion and left a decapitated horse statue as a threat. Mutual friends, however, suspect Tatiana orchestrated the event herself as part of a boundary-pushing fantasy.

6. Tatiana’s Death & Lingering Mysteries

[48:05–54:17]

After serving only a year in jail (out of a four-year sentence for solicitation to commit murder), Tatiana spirals further—multiple run-ins with authorities, including an arson charge for the Del Mar fire.
Shortly after FaceTiming Mark from a bar, Tatiana dies in public from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, just ten days after her 44th birthday.
The question of Tatiana's role as “victim vs. perpetrator” lingers, complicated by rumors about the suspicious death of Tatiana’s friend Cheryl.

“Maybe people close to Tatiana saw something that we probably don’t see... but ultimately they thought she was a good person. I don’t know. I don’t know.” — Stephanie Soo, [51:52]

Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

[05:45] Co-host: “She spent $20 million?”
[13:52] Stephanie Soo: “Tatiana gets up on the table and starts eating a bunny meal... the camera is behind her, and [Mark] is, like, lifting up her skirt.”
[21:54] Co-host (On Mark calling his former business partner): “Damn.”
[22:46] Stephanie Soo: “That’s a very odd choice, right? ... That was her idea. Mark’s not even that creative to come up with a pseudonym like that. So I’m sure she picked it.”
[33:50] Co-host: “What? So what? Two million? That’s probably crazy. Like, that’s the highest we’ve ever heard, right?”
[38:06] Stephanie Soo: “Her lawyer complains about how she was living off of $50,000 a month as her allowance when they were married. And he’s cutting it down to $12–15,000 a month, which is just like an unreasonable amount.”
[43:56] Stephanie Soo: "…the most disturbing allegation in the divorce comes out where Tatiana claims Mark...holds Tatiana at gunpoint and essays her while Mark is watching. And then cuts the head off of their horse statue and throws it on the bed."
[45:52] Stephanie Soo: "He believes that Tatiana is the one that orchestrated all of this. And she was always the one wanting to go to these clubs, wanting to do these types of things, wanting to get intimate with other people."
[51:14] Co-host: "So it was like there were a... It's in front of a store?"
[53:43] Co-host: "Even what we see from the outside is insane. Right. Their lifestyle already insane. So you can only imagine what's more that's not disclosed."

Timestamps for Important Segments

[00:45]–[07:17]: Valitar horse show, financial excess, and failure
[07:18]–[19:09]: Sanctum sex club, reality show, and Remleys’ pseudonyms
[27:28]–[32:29]: Tatiana’s mysterious past and reconstructed identity
[32:29]–[37:08]: The Mark–Tatiana relationship and downward financial spiral
[37:53]–[43:32]: Divorce, fire, and hitman plot
[43:56]–[47:08]: Sexual assault allegations, fire/arson, poisoning suspicions
[48:05]–[54:17]: Tatiana’s death, questions of victimhood/perpetration, unresolved mysteries

Conclusion

Stephanie Soo masterfully narrates the descent of Tatiana Remley from high-society swinger and reality TV subject to sensational murder-for-hire accused, arson suspect, and ultimately, a tragic, public suicide. Through exhaustive research and wry, often darkly comic commentary, Stephanie peels back the layers of performative glamour, trauma, and dysfunction underpinning Tatiana’s life and relationships. The episode closes on unresolved mysteries—particularly the death of friend Cheryl—and the question of how much we’ll ever truly understand about what drove Tatiana Remley or the role of the men in her orbit.

Questions for Listeners:

Was Tatiana a victim, a perpetrator, or both?
Did her traumatic upbringing and performative identity fuel her later choices?
How much did the elite, secretive environment she and Mark inhabited contribute to their downfall?

For those seeking a riveting, detailed journey through decadence, duplicity, and tragedy among the uber-wealthy, this episode is unmissable.

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Narrator (0:00)

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There are a lot of signs that someone doesn't like you, and one of them would be having a decapitated horse statue head left on your bed. But that's exactly what happens to Mark and Tatiana Remy. This is part two of that entire case. Please go listen to the audio podcast Part one. Otherwise none of this is going to make sense. But we have at the center of all of this, Mark and Tatiana Remy. They are honestly like a hot rich couple from Southern California and they're loaded. They spend $20 million to make this horse show called Valitar. It's going to be a mix of Cirque du Soleil and horse riding. Tatiana is going to be the face of the entire show and it's going to be amazing. Until it's not. Until they abandon all the other performers and their horses, leaving them in just this massive red circus tent in the middle of San Diego, California, with no way to get back, with no way to even feed the horses. They leave them high and dry after just two performances of Valit because it's a completely failed attempt. And it seems like the only thing going right in Tatiana and Mark Remy's life is their sex life, where they constantly frequent an elite swingers club sex club called Sanctum. This is where you go when not only do you want to see hot people do each other, you want to see someone dressed up in a historically probably factual costume of Mary Antoinette doing the bounce on a champagne bottle. That is the club that you go to. It is rumored by Business Insider that Gwyneth Paltrow yet was a former Member of Sanctum. So this is like a high end Hollywood intimate club. And they were frequent members. They're actually even part of a reality show that we're about to get into. So buckle up for part two. And with that being said, let's get started. Everybody is left high and dry at the Valetara horse show. The horses are left, the performers are left. I mean, that's not even figurative. This is like real. The horses are left to starve. One of the biggest problems with the show that a lot of people say in hindsight is that Tatiana sucks at riding horses. And that's mean, right? She's fine, she's mediocre. But she has nowhere near the writing ability that seasoned professionals have. You cannot compare a weekend golfer to someone at the pga. But Mark and Tatiana want her to be the star of the show, and everybody else has to accommodate her, even if that means they have to lower their skills to make sure that she shines the hardest. I mean, to give you a little bit more context on Tatiana's capabilities, she would often just go out there. So they had two shows. Her face is plastered all over the billboards. If I buy a ticket to Valitar, what am I expecting when this blonde woman comes out on a horse? I'm expecting a somersault in the air, land on a horse and then do a headstand. Eat your lunch off your feet. Like, I'm expecting some sort of holy cow. This is the most climactic part of this entire performance. This was worth all this money that I could have used for, I don't know, bills. But instead, a horse show, Like, I'm getting something out of this, right? She would just come out on her horse and do a few figure eights. Not on the horse. Like, she's not doing figure eights on the horse. She's just riding the horse like a normal person. And the horse is doing figure eights. It's not like she's walking. Like the horse is just trotting in a figure eight. And the whole thing is awkward because everybody in the crowd, the customers, they're sitting at the edge of their seat, they're holding their breath. The music is getting more climactic. They're expecting something insane. But then she just disappears. It's said by people who went to the first two performances, nobody even knew how to respond. So they were just all looking at the person that they came with. Like, what? And clapping like, what's happening? This caused so much tension that a lot of the seasoned professionals that would have Performed to bring in the viewers. They all end up leaving. There are allegations that the couples just. They also just spent money that didn't make any sense. Some people said that they were willing to spend unreasonable amounts of money on billboard advertisements with Tatiana's face everywhere. They were willing to spend money on Tatiana's costumes. But then when a horse would get injured, they would cheapen out.

Narrator (8:05)

240S. 40s. They meet at a Starbucks. A chance meeting. Mark falls in love, marries Tatiana, moves her into his $5.5 million house. And now they're on a reality show called Naked Sanctum. It's all about the Sanctum Sex Club. It's. It's a whole season. A documentary following the founder, Damon. He goes around and it shows him preparing for these sexual ARR. Erotic events while his entire family life falls apart. It's like riveting and depressing at the same time. The minute things start getting hot, if you will, in the documentary, it cuts to him being like, yes, so my daughters won't talk to me anymore because they're getting bullied at school because someone found out about my job on Instagram. And yeah, they're bullying them. And I'm like, oh, that's not the right time to put that part in. And then it cuts to him having like a three person intimate party with two young girls of age, women of age in his bedroom. And then it's just like a monologue. It cuts him sitting there being like, I miss my ex wife. I think she was my soulmate, but she left me because I chose this life and she didn't. And then it just like cuts to like moaning noises. Mary Antoinette with a champagne bottle. And then it cuts to him being like, I'm actually really lonely. So I'm like, okay, I don't know how to feel. Damon is a very interesting guy. He says he has a lot of knowledge of the human intimate experience. Now, just from running Sanctum, he says, you know, a lot of husbands, they bring their wives and watching their wives interact and have intense intimate relations with another person in front of them is hot. Basically, he's talking about Cuck. He says, the guys I've talked to directly about it say they get turned on seeing their partner turned on. They genuinely don't have jealousy or fear. They know that the woman's coming home with them. They know that they're not worried, and they really like to see their partner get pleasure from somebody else. That just turns them on. Also, of course, they're with another woman, so they have freedom too. So I'm like, okay, maybe they're swingers. Even for a couple that don't do anything, you know, a guy sees other guys hitting on his wife and he's like, oh, yeah, I forgot my wife is hot. I forgot how hot she is. Or like, you know, the same thing in the other direction. It was healthy for a lot of people. You know, a lot of people told me it saved their marriage. But obviously it's not just a great therapeutic experience for married couples. He mentions one time there was this very famous actress who came into an open room just having intense intimate relations with her husband and another guy. And he says, I could tell she was on too much Xanax or something. And it was like, like it was not good. We had to break it up because it seemed like she was not in her right mind. Which I believe. Now that he's left Sanctum, if you're interested in following his life ever, he owns a restaurant bar on Sunset Boulevard in LA called Puzzle. It's kind of like Sanctum. There's dancers, but it's a dinner and you can't have full blown intimate relations. But one review from someone, I don't think they realized the environment they were getting into. The review reads, we went to Puzzle last weekend for my birthday. We went to the restaurant and the lady who was attending to us first of all was clueless. It was a tiny place, barely 10 tables. Music was no good. The singers were singing and dancing literally on top of our heads. The dancing lady did nothing but take off her clothes with the music and stayed almost naked the whole time. I was confused. Yeah, but in the reality show that aired a few years back, there's a very specific couple on there. A couple shows up under the pseudonyms of Vladimir and his wife Ileana. But they get invited to this exclusive. So Damon is holding a private dinner at his house in the Hollywood Hills, I believe, very close to the Playboy Mansion, which would also make it very close to Sean Diddy Combs house. Here we are again. Right? But they will eat, they will watch each other Eat. And they will eat, and they will eat other things and watch each other eat other things and then repeat. And not all the steps are obviously involving food, but Vladimir and his wife are seated at the table. These are pseudonyms. It's not Vladimir and Ileana. It's Mark Remy and Tatiana Remy just sitting there in the flesh. Okay. Mark Ruemley says what Damon has created here is an opportunity for people to open their minds. Tatiana is just staring lovingly at her husband as if he just discovered quantum physics. She's like, nodding. And then she chimes in. I'm all about pushing limits. And we're going to follow Sanctum, and we're going to go where it goes and just pursue it and enjoy it and life and pursue ourselves and our love and our romance and our sexuality. And I had zero clue what that meant. And once most of the meal is over with, all prepared by this personal chef that had a Michelin star restaurant, I believe. A violinist walks down the steps of the mansion, and in walk two girls wearing bunny masks, and they're naked. One has the word touch written on her chest. The other one has Eat me written on her chest. So it's very like, the directions are pretty clear. They're climbing onto the table, they just start making out before heading into the final act where they're just both, like, laying on the dinner table doing things.

Narrator (13:55)

And Mark Remy is just admiring his wife visually and physically. And the Camera is, like, behind her, and he's, like, lifting up her skirt. I don't know. And then she finally gets up and she jokes, I think I look guilty. And he says, you do. The proof is on your mouth. Because she has icing on her mouth now. Then it just cuts to them sitting together outside. And Mark Ramlee says, the entertainment is, bar none. And Tatiana looks really serious, as if she is witnessing a profound, enlightening. Mom. Beautiful. She's like, interjecting beautiful. He says, the quality of the performers, you know, the sexuality that they exude, you just. It just gets you off. It gets you going. It really does. Tatiana says the bunnies were beautiful. They're sensuous. There's something enticing about their energy, and it draws me to them. I cannot stop myself. Like all the taboos of this world, everything just dissolves in their energy. And then it cuts to one of the bunnies coming over to hug Tatiana. And Mark is just watching as they just start getting unclothed. And we see Tatiana unclothed, and they just start doing a lot of things. And Mark Remy tells the viewers, you know, sex is probably the biggest part of our lives. Yes. Tatiana's gonna say yes. Sex is the center of our universe and everything we derive around it and it revolves around it. And in the beginning of our relationship, we weren't into this lifestyle, but as time grew on and our sexuality grew together and Sanctum made it all that much more amazing. Mark continues, I'm kind of like an adrenaline junkie, actually. You know, I love to take risks, and I love to live life on the edge. I'm drawn to things that push the limits. Tatiana looks at him. And we live life to the fullest every moment we can. I think people have a hard time in this environment, in this country, in this day and time, embracing their sexuality and embracing, you know, being all that you can be. 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Narrator (19:13)

Happening seems like at the same time, yeah. And the founder of Sanctum is asked about the couple because, you know, he saw them and then, you know, they make news later. And he says they seem to be really happy with what was going on. They seemed really happy with each other and really excited about the experience. I mean, they seemed really into it. It's just that the wife, Tatiana, didn't really seem like an authentic character to me. She seemed a little bit fake. You know, I've been doing this a while, and I've been dealing with people like this a long time, and I have a pretty good sense of character at this point. There was something off about her, for sure, but I don't think he saw it. I think he was in love with her. I think he really cared for her. Whatever she was pulling, I don't think he was aware of it. So he's just saying, like, the way she's describing, like, it was beautiful. It was magical. So I, unfortunately, I watched. I mean, I couldn't really find the exact episode that they were featured in. So just to be thorough, I watched the whole season, even though they showed up in, like, episode three. I don't know why I did that, but I thought they would show up again. I don't know. But all the other very wealthy couples that go on there, they're very blunt about the experience. They're like, yeah, it's hot. Like, it's hot. We do it. It gets us going, and then we're hotter to each other and we like it. It's hot. But then when you see Tatiana, it's very, like, ethereal and spiritual. And it's like this moment when all the other couples are like, I just like looking at hot people do hot things, and it makes my husband and wife hotter. To me, that was about it. So I think that's what he's insinuating. It just felt. And it did feel performative in the sense of, like, you do meet some people who are very into, like. Like, tantric experiences where they think and they genuinely feel. It's like an awakening as they're doing certain things with their partner. And it's like this connection that transcends above all in this very physical moment. But that was not the vibe that she was giving.

Narrator (22:46)

Yeah, Very off and the mutual friend said there's something wrong with her. That it's really weird thing to do. I mean 100%. I know that Mark didn't pick the name. That was her idea. Mark's not even that creative to come up with a pseudonym like that. So I'm sure she picked it. And why would she pick that name if that's who molested her? Her brother. Even if he didn't molest her. Just her brother's name. Really bizarre. Friends say their relationship was just getting toxic. They had a much healthier relationship in the beginning. Aside from the colossal financial failure that was Valitar, at least they were both business oriented. They're always working on something. Is it the best thing in the world? No. Is it something that's gonna run them into bankruptcy? Perhaps. But it's something. Eventually their entire relationship just revolves around sleeping with different people. The Del Mar Fire Department get a phone call. A residential home is on fire. The entire house is up in flames. And it's a big one. It's $5.5 million of the house burning to the ground. Firefighters get to the scene, put out the fire before it can start spreading. But it's just weird. You can tell that this is not a normally occurring fire. This doesn't even seem like an accident. And like yes, we are in Southern California, but this doesn't make sense. The bomb and arson unit of the Del Mar Fire Department start investigating the cause of the fire. And the first persons of interest are going to be whoever is at the scene of the crime. That makes sense. And they find two women. One of them interestingly has. Has three guns with her and a ton of ammunition. I mean technically she does have every right to be there though. Kind of because it's the house that she shares with Mark. What the hell is Tatiana Remley doing there with guns and ammunition when the house is burning down? Some people just have a lot more targets on their back than others. Some people could go the rest of their lives and no one wants to harm them. And then you have someone like Mark Remy, Co founder of Signal Corp. Tech company that lives off of DoD Department of Defense contracts. They operate, execute large scale federal IT project, primarily dealing with high end government contracts. He was almost a VP there for 20 years. Executive VP, Chief Information Officer. The company had an annual sales at its peak surpassing $600 million from the government. Eventually he retires. Mark Remli inherits close to $26 million. And that seems to be a mix from his work at Signal. When he exits and from his parents passing, so they're all wealthy. And that's when he meets Tatiana at Starbucks. And it's not the worst of the book tropes, but it does feel like something that only happens in like a modern contemporary romance in the category of rom com that doesn't take itself too seriously. Like that's the vibe it gives. They get married and suddenly Tatiana has a $218,000 engagement ring. The first year that they're married. Because now Tatiana has to fit into this higher, upper class life. He buys her $200,000 worth of clothes. Yeah.

Narrator (29:44)

That would. Then she might lean into that. But I will say a mutual friend does say something very interesting. They say Tatiana is perhaps a Persona that she made up. And maybe it came from Childhood trauma. And she just like, needs a character that she would become that wasn't tortured. I don't know, but I don't think any of it is real. So that's what the friend says about Tatiana being a character that she plays. Ken Wolcott, Tatiana's ex husband, says her childhood was really rough. She grew up near Bend, Oregon, but in the rural area. She didn't have any social interactions really with anybody growing up. It sounds like her parents might have been involved in a religious group that might border the loosely defined word of a cult. She wasn't allowed to have traditional medicine or medical care. It's believed that her family fully rejected all forms of any life saving medicines, any discomfort, leaving medicines. The way Ken Wolcott saw it and the way he later describes it is he thinks a lot of Tatiana's emotional disruption comes from the fact that she was essentially held captive for 10 years by her parents. They didn't allow her to have any friends. She wasn't even enrolled in school after the fourth grade. Impressively, she got her ged, but it was just a rough life. Before marrying Ken Wolcott, Tatiana had a daughter with a separate guy. Now she marries Ken, has a son with him, and they are married for a total of 11 months. And short does not mean simple, because their divorce is very, very messy. Ken alleges that Tatiana misused his finances. More specifically, he gave Tatiana a card to use to purchase clothes. She would buy the clothes with his credit card and then return the clothes and then ask for cash for the return instead of for returning it back to the card, which I feel like that's impressive. And I feel like, as a husband, you should support that because why are you okay with her spending the money on clothes unless she's spending the cash on something else? I don't know. You would think that a millionaire would be impressed by her financial ability to think ahead, but no, he's very upset. He also accused Tatiana being inattentive to their son, who was born with extra support needs. And that's when they separate. He says that he wasn't Gonna send her $9,000 a month to care for their son because she's using it fully on herself. She's not using it on their son. So he wants full custody of the son and he wants to stop paying her child support. He also just overall disagrees with the way that she's living her life. So ultimately he ends up with full custody. But this is where things get interesting, and I think this is where lots have sympathy For Tatiana, all the guys in her life still like her to some degree. Because he continues paying child support even though he has full custody, like, out of his own volition. It's not because the judge orders him to. Okay, So, I mean, there must be something that they see that is good in Tatiana, perhaps.

Narrator (38:06)

Yes, because even in the divorce filings, her lawyer complains about how she was living off of $50,000 a month as her allowance when they were married. And he's cutting it down to 12 to $15,000 a month, which is just like an unreasonable amount. Wow. So according to the divorce documents, Mark Remy had invested. He still has. I think this is like after the bankruptcy. I don't how this works. Right. But he still had a portfolio worth about 8.6 million. A bank account with $400,000, and multiple multimillion dollar properties, vehicles, jewelry, all amounting to be $8.2 million. And so with that, the shit slinging divorce begins. Tatiana claims Mark was not only verbally and physically abusive, that he allegedly put a gun up to her head in front of another employee. And another time, he chased her around the house with a knife. According to Tatiana's divorce filings. He stole property from her. He, he destroyed her property. 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Yeah. This is after their divorce is finalized. This is after she gets out of prison for trying to kill her husband. Yeah. We're gonna get into how much time she served. In the middle of San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood, outside of a bar, Tatiana Remley, who served her jail time for trying to get Mark killed. She's a free woman, and she is laying on the curb now with a gunshot wound to her head. She's dead. Two years before her death, she had pled guilty to solicitation to commit murder and a firearm charge. She was initially facing nine years in prison for the little Starbucks meetup and trying to kill Mark. However, she's ultimately sentenced to four years in prison, but she only ends up serving one year before being released. She gets out after one year, and when she gets out, she dates Mark here and there, starts dating other guys, and there are a few changes in her life. She kind of starts leaning more into that country girl scene and. And she starts posting really intense things on Facebook about how life is about what you make it. And quote, maturity is when you have the power to destroy someone who did you wrong, but you just breathe, walk away, and let life take care of them. Which some people think maybe there was a lot of trauma that she endured in previous relationships. Like, it just. No one really can understand what happened. Like, it's hard to pinpoint directly if she is a victim turn perpetrator, or if she just a straight perpetrator all the way through. So she switches from like the more Russian centered equestrian aesthetic to country girl. Horses, bikes, trailers, snakes. Like, that kind of vibe. She. She posts quotes like, everybody wants to be a country girl until the hay wagon rolls up and it's time to start stacking. And a lot of netizens are just confused at the time, like, how did she only get one year for arranging to kill her husband? And they all commented, California judges. Judges are insane. Which I would have to agree with that sentiment because court documents state that Tatiana was very thorough about how she wanted Mark to be decapitated, how she wanted his body to be deposed, disposed of, how she had all this cash saved up. I mean, she had a substantial amount of cash that they found on her, which was probably Mark's cash.