A Las Vegas performer who once worked with a California socialite infamous for putting a hit out on her husband before taking her own life last week said he has “no remorse” after hearing about her death in an exclusive interview with The California Post — he also thinks the way she died was “sketchy” and called out her “narcissistic” lifestyle.
“She seems like someone that would take someone else’s life, not her own,” said Erik Martonovich, who once performed in a disastrous equestrian show run by Tatyana Remley.
Remley shot herself outside the Princess Pub & Grille in San Diego’s Little Italy. She died from a “gunshot wound to the head” per authorities after she called her estranged husband Mark Remley from the bar, complaining about her new partner, according to the Daily Mail.
In August 2023, she was convicted of taking a hit out on her ex’s life, along with charges of carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle and possessing a firearm in public. She pleaded guilty to the charges and served one year of her nearly four-year prison sentence.
“She was a narcissistic gold digger. She based her whole persona on her look, maybe she was losing her looks and decided not to continue,” said Martonovich.
Martonovich has not held back when talking about the Remleys before. “I knew them well,” he told The Post in 2023. “They were a–holes and karma is a bitch.”
Martonovich was part of her failed 2012 San Diego Equestrian show, which he says she tanked. The Del Mar racetrack show, Valitar, lasted just five days. Performers said the married couple shuttered the show, leaving cast members and their horses stranded in California, according to TheHorse.com.
“In business, she was a moron,” Martonovich said.
He also claims she once propositioned him to have sex with her as her husband watched. Something he said no to. “I steered clear.”
“It sounds very sketchy to me that she called, said someone is being mean, and then committed suicide,” said Martonovich of her death. “I don’t know why he answered the phone. He always said yes to her always, so she was probably in a bad situation.”
As far as Remley dying in front of a bar, Martonovich wasn’t surprised.
“She was definitely a partier. I definitely saw her drink a lot; she was into other stuff too, given this was a while back though.”
Martonovich moved to Las Vegas to where he’s part of a production called Gladius the Show. A year ago, he was interviewed about the Remleys for a yet-to-be-distributed documentary. He said he had heard that Mark had done so many drugs that he was kind of slow.
His only regret about Remley’s death is, “she won’t get to the documentary when I talked s–t about them.”
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