A glamorous Russian horsewoman accused of hiring a hitman to murder her husband was a sex-crazed bisexual who loved being an “icy slut” with lovers, former friends said.
Tatyana Remley, 42, was arrested on August 2 after it emerged that the man she asked to kill her husband, Mark Remley, was an undercover police officer. She is being held in a San Diego prison.
Acquaintances told the New York Post that she was scheming and manipulative and took advantage of Mark Remley – who inherited $26 million from his parents – for his money.
“I was surprised that she was so brutal, but I know a few guys who ‘played’ with her and said she was a stone-cold bitch,” a former friend told the newspaper.
Another said she was “sex crazy” and used her looks to seduce wealthy men – although Remley was also said to have enjoyed lesbian affairs with women.
Tatyana Remley and her husband had started several unsuccessful businesses over the years, including an indoor cycling studio (pictured) called Rhythm and Power
The rider claimed in divorce documents that her husband Mark (right) allowed a friend to rape and threaten her
Remley alleged in the explosive court filing that she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint in her home in May, three months before her arrest for the alleged murder-for-hire
“She started out with the polo players and soon started targeting the rich men,” the former girlfriend said.
“She was obsessed with sex and several of the guys had their way with her.” When you have a body like that, it draws attention.
“Tatyana did pretty naughty things and also had a girlfriend.” And she got away with it.”
The friends said she worked her way through the San Diego polo scene before settling on Mark, who, like them, had been married before and had children.
“I’ve always wondered how she got someone like Mark,” said a former acquaintance.
“Anyone who would be honest would think she was very, very lucky.”
He financed their disastrous pet project, a “Cirque de Soleil with horses,” which bankrupted the company he founded for the show in 2012.
She then turned to polo – although she wasn’t a strong rider – and convinced him to buy her five polo ponies.
Entry-level ponies cost between $5,000 and $15,000, but experienced animals trained at top farms can cost up to $200,000.
“I knew she wasn’t a very good rider, but she thought she was a superstar,” said a friend.
Tatjana was arrested after admitting that she planned to kill him and have his body turned over to an undercover officer, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said
She fell during her first competition and broke her arm at the San Diego Polo Club in August 2015.
Then she decided she was no longer interested and the ponies were sold.
In 2015, the pair opened a cycling studio called Rhythm and Power, but it closed the next year for unknown reasons.
In April, Tatyana Remley said she and Mark planned to move to Wellington, Florida, where the National Polo Center is located.
But in July she filed for divorce, claiming her husband and his friends came to their house on May 21 and one of his friends raped her while Mark watched and laughed.
“They forcibly entered my bedroom and held me at gunpoint,” Tatyana Remley said in her statement.
“I was raped by one of his friends, who also told me that he planned to kill me.” This happened while the defendant watched and laughed, allowing his friends to continue.
“They went to smash my expensive horse statue in the yard and put the horse’s head in my bed, Godfather style.”
The couple made headlines a decade ago when they opened a “horse-human acrobatic show” called Valitar at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in 2012, which soon went bankrupt
Remley in an advertisement for her failed horse show in the San Diego area
The couple’s $5.3 million home is in ritzy Del Mar, California. Mark – who reportedly inherited $26 million from his parents – moved into the current Del Mar estate with Tatyana
This is one of the couple’s previous homes in the San Diego area, valued at over $5 million
In the documents, she claimed that her husband was addicted to cocaine and had violent outbursts due to mental illness.
Friends told the Post they didn’t believe their claims, saying the couple liked both cigars and vodka, but Mark Remley was never known for taking drugs.
In early July, she told a mutual friend that she wanted to kill him – and the friend contacted the police, who launched a sting operation.
The undercover agent, posing as a hit man, arranged to meet her on August 2 at a Starbucks on Loma Santa Fe Drive.
She allegedly brought three firearms and a “deposit.”
“She provided detailed information about how she wanted her husband killed and his body disposed of,” San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officials said.
She has pleaded not guilty.