She moved from glamor photos to mug shots.
Once a dazzling equestrian and socialite, Tatiana Lemley looked almost unrecognizable in a shocking first prison photo obtained by The Post.
The photo is the first taken from inside prison since the 43-year-old pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hitman to kill her estranged husband Mark Lemley.
Tatiana Lemley was recently transferred from a San Diego prison to a state prison in Chowchilla, California, after pleading guilty in December to aiding and abetting murder in connection with a plot to hire a friend to shoot and kill her husband.
Lemley, who previously sported long blonde hair and posed in tight shorts and lingerie in sexy shoots, looked shocked and exhausted in the prison photo taken on Jan. 17 in Chowchilla. It looked like it was over.
The 5-foot-11 former model was arrested in August during a sting operation at a Starbucks in Solana Beach after telling an undercover officer that she wanted her husband killed.
She initially asked a mutual friend to kill Mark and offered him $2 million. Instead, her friend revealed Tatiana’s plans to Mark, who went to the police.
The same friend was working in 2013 when the couple tried to bring Valitor, a multimillion-dollar equestrian acrobatics show, to San Diego’s Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Sources told the Post that it was around that time that the “friend” had a sexual relationship with Tatiana.
Valitar was a “disastrous failure” and abruptly closed after a few shows, with acrobats, performers and staff demanding promised wages.
Mark Lemley filed for bankruptcy with the business, leaving workers empty-handed, former business partner Eric Martonovich told the Post.
But Martonovich said Mark continued to send messages and tried to bring him back to San Diego with other business plans.
“But it didn’t work because I was told: [Mark] “He was trying to convince me to sleep with him while Tatiana watched,” Martonovich said. “They’re crazy!”
The estranged couple, who have been married for 12 years, are regular swingers and were featured in the 2017 Showtime documentary series “Naked SNCTM.”
Tayana filed for divorce in July, claiming Mark put a gun to her head. She also claimed that one of her estranged husband’s friends threatened her in a “Godfather-style” manner.
Lemley denied the charges. Three weeks after her divorce filing, Tatiana was arrested and charged with inciting murder for carrying a concealed weapon in her car and having a loaded firearm in public.
Tatiana pleaded guilty on December 28 and was sentenced to three years and eight months. But he could be eligible for parole as early as June 2025, according to court records seen by The Post.
Martonovich said he was not worried that the former socialite turned con artist would be released early on good behavior.
“Given that she could have carried out her plan in no worse way than to go straight to the police station and say, ‘I was thinking of killing my husband,’ there are other things she could have accomplished.” I don’t think you’re that smart. Is that okay?’
“If she gets out of prison in a year, I want her to come back to San Diego wearing crop tops and Daisy Dukes, riding around town on her horse, telling everyone she’s doing something amazing that they know nothing about. I wouldn’t be shocked either. That’s Tayana.”
