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

27 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: Who are Mark and Tatyana Remley and what was their investment in Valitar?

1.55 - 25.953 Stephanie Soo

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 Remley. 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 Remley.

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They are honestly like a hot, rich couple from Southern California. And they're loaded. They spent $20 million to make this horse show called Valatar. It's going to be a mix of Cirque du Soleil and horse riding.

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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.

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They leave them high and dry after just two performances of Valatar because it's a completely failed attempt. And it seems like the only thing going right in Tatiana and Mark Remley's life is their sex life, where they constantly frequent an elite swingers club, sex club. called sanctum.

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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 marie 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 was a former member of Sanctum. So this is like a high-end Hollywood intimate club.

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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.

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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?

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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.

Chapter 2: What led to the downfall of the Valitar horse show?

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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.

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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.

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so they were just all looking at the person that they came with like 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

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so they're trying to do this thing for all the wrong reasons yes like she want to be like a celebrity horse rider yeah i don't even think she wants to be a celebrity horse rider a mutual friend of theirs would later come out and say her goal in life was to be a housewife but not the housewife you're thinking one of the housewives of a major city on the bravo tv network housewives of orange county real housewife yeah the real housewives of beverly hills that was the her goal yeah

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And she spent $20 million. Yeah. I feel like there's got to be a cheaper way.

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I feel like you could have paid. I don't know who the, is it still the Cohen guy? You could have paid. I feel like bribery could have been a good answer for that one. Someone in the Bravo TV network, I think you could have bribed them for way less than $20 million. Yeah.

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no offense that's crazy yeah in another instance this is very dumb but apparently tatiana just shows up one day with a new horse and just casually mentions oh i got a new horse okay these are horse people they know horses and there really is no price no value that you can put on a majestic horse's life but you can because that is a thirty thousand dollar horse you can't that's a thirty thousand dollar horse

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They ask her how much she paid for it. $70,000. Again, you can't put a price on life. You can't put a price on a horse.

Chapter 3: How did the Remleys become known in the swinger community?

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But that's a $30,000 horse.

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And she got scammed?

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Yes. She got scammed $40,000 more. A mutual friend who witnessed this later says the asking price for the horse at the time was $30,000. So she managed to spend $40,000 more than the asking price just because she decided she wanted that horse and someone saw a sucker written on her face, I guess. That was their quote, not mine.

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Wow.

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Yeah. After the fall of Alatar, the Remleys come home one day and one of the valuable horse statues in the house is left decapitated on their bed. Like I said, it's a threat. At this point, Mark and Tatiana, they have a lot of enemies, a lot of people who hate them.

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So someone broke into their house?

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Yes, forced their way in.

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forced their way in.

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And Tatiana claims she knows exactly who did this. She knows exactly who's behind it. It's none other than her own husband, Mark Remley. I think stereotypes are inherently really bad, but one could argue that Mark and Tatiana don't really care. They kind of fit it. Everyone around them knew it. Mark is rich, worth close to 30 million dollars.

Chapter 4: What was the significance of the decapitated horse head found in their home?

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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 Remley and Tatiana Remley just sitting there in the flesh, okay? Mark Remley says... What Damon has created here is an opportunity for people to open their minds.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The violinist later says... They're showing all of this in the show?

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You don't... Like you see lots of nudity, but you don't see explicit... Oh, I see.

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And of course...

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Yeah, but you like, okay, I don't know if YouTube likes that word. But like you see, you see where the placement of body parts are. So you infer, right?

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Okay.

Chapter 5: What accusations arose during the Remleys' tumultuous relationship?

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They never really went to Russia. They never grew up in Russia. Not saying that you have to grow up in Russia to be part of the Russian culture or to celebrate your Russian ancestry. It's just her parents are Vera and Brian. And she just leans into the Russian aesthetic really hard. And then she starts leaning out. I think that's where it gets interesting.

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Leaning out as like her look or...

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Her look, the obsessions that she has. So when she was very into the Russian aesthetic, it was all about how you can be an equestrian in like the Russian way. So every different country has their own style of horse riding. So Russia has a very specific type and they like specific horses that fit that aesthetic.

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And you have like the long blowing blonde hair and then you wear like very swaying fabrics. It's like a very specific look. And then you have like the country girl horse, which is like you've got the tight jeans, you've got the boots, you've got the cowboy hat. Also beautiful, but it's like a very different aesthetic.

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Yeah.

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So she just kind of picks and chooses. And some people speculate she picks and chooses depending on what she thinks the guy that she is dating will like.

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I see.

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So you're saying... So if the guy is like, I love me a cowgirl, she will be a cowgirl. If the guy is like, I love like that Eastern European, you know, some American dude is like, I love an exotic.

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Yeah, got it.

Chapter 6: How did Tatiana Remley's past influence her actions?

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Even just even like what they what we see from the outside is insane. Yeah, right. Their lifestyle already insane. So you can only imagine what's more that's not disclosed.

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And then obviously there's questions of, I mean, of course, all of their mutual friends are saying that Tatiana is the one that wanted the lifestyle, but I guess some netizens are also confused of maybe she got into the lifestyle and then was pressured to do things she didn't want to do or things happened and that led to her wanting people dead. Is that an excuse?

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No, but I guess there's just so many unanswered questions because it just got so unhinged.

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Yeah.

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So quickly in a way that doesn't necessarily make sense. What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments. Stay safe and I'll see you in the next one.

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Bye.

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