A California equestrian who tried to rent a hitman to homicide her estranged husband fatally shot herself outdoors a San Diego bar after being launched from jail, however earlier than going through arson prices for burning down the couple’s Del Mar mansion.
Tatyana Remley, 45, put a gun to her head outdoors the Princess Pub & Grille within the metropolis’s fashionable Little Italy part simply earlier than 9 p.m. final Thursday after firing a single shot into the air, witnesses advised native ABC affiliate KGTV.
The San Diego County Medical Examiner later confirmed Remley sustained “a self-inflicted gunshot wound” and was pronounced lifeless in a “public square” when first responders couldn’t revive her. Princess Pub is positioned on the nook of West Date and India streets, subsequent to a pedestrian-only out of doors eating space and bustling promenade.
It was a jarring finish to a drama-fraught decade of tumultuous marriage, a homicide plot and alleged arson following monetary damage for the previously high-flying multimillionaire couple, Mark and Tatyana Remley.
They’d gained notoriety in 2012 for producing a much-hyped horse and acrobatics present, Valitar, then pulling the plug after simply 4 performances. They not solely stiffed and stranded distributors, performers and different workers but additionally needed to public sale off a lot of the present’s props and different supplies to repay collectors.
The following decade noticed a string of off-again-on-again divorce filings between the 2, some laced with home violence accusations from Tatyana that Mark denied. She was first arrested in July 2023 on firearms prices when deputies responding to a blaze that destroyed the couple’s dwelling found she illegally possessed three firearms plus ammunition, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Workplace stated on the time.
A day later, a good friend of the Remleys advised Mark that Tatyana had put a $2 million bounty on his head and was searching for a hitman. Sheriff’s deputies organized a sting and arrested Tatyana that August after she divulged “detailed information on how she wanted her husband killed and his body disposed” to an undercover detective, police stated.
She pleaded responsible in December 2023 to solicitation of homicide and a weapons cost and was sentenced to a few years and eight months in state jail. She was launched early in January of this yr, however arrested once more in September.
Mark had advised police that his spouse deliberately set their mansion on fireplace proper after he discovered she was making an attempt to have him killed. Hearth officers concurred and charged Tatyana with arson, Individuals reported. She pleaded not responsible at her arraignment on Sept. 11 and was due again in court docket to face these prices on March 3.
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