While fighting since 2017 against a double cancer, Bernard Tapie died on October 3, 2021 at the age of 78 years.
The man of 1000 lives, Bernard Tapie died on October 3, 2021 from double cancer of the esophagus and stomach, his family announced on Sunday.
In the middle of summer 2020, Bernard Tapie had mentioned this new treatment from which he was benefiting in the Belgian press. “There are three stages for the launch of a new treatment on the market. My treatment is at the second stage. It is It will be necessary to wait for sufficient results so that it passes to the third stage. I am a kind of guinea pig for medicine “. A heavy treatment that affects other organs to the point that Bernard Tapie feared “to die cured of (his) cancer” as he said with humor.
Finally, exhausted by the treatments, Bernard Tapie passed away at the beginning of October.
Last year, he still intervened in the media to reframe OM supporters who were hoping for a defeat for PSG in the Champions League final. “I wish Parisian supporters to experience the same happiness as us”.
On August 20, 2020, he had also attended, weakened, the wedding of his daughter Sophie in Saint-Tropez.
Last April, still weakened, Bernard Tapie and his wife were victims of a violent assault in their secondary home. A news item that had moved the country and particularly affected the former businessman.
A busy life
Bernard Tapie will have lived 1000 lives, successively or simultaneously, captain of industry, owner of the Olympique de Marseille, television host but also singer, author and actor. He was also engaged in politics. Minister of the City in the Bérégovoy government, he was also elected deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, European deputy and general councilor of Bouches-du-Rhône.
In recent years, he was also a press boss since he owned 89% of the La Provence Group, which publishes the newspapers La Provence and Corse-Matin.
In 2016, his fortune was estimated at 150 million euros, which made him approximately the 400th French fortune.
Bernard Tapie’s life has also been punctuated by ultra-media court cases. He was notably sentenced to prison for “corruption” and “witness tampering” in the VA-OM affair, but also for “tax evasion” in the Phocéa affair, to suspended prison sentences and to a ban on managing for “abuse of corporate assets” in the Testut affair, for “forgery, use and concealment of forgery, breach of trust and corporate assets” in the OM accounts affair.
In October 2020, he also attended the start of the appeal trial in the Adidas-Credit Lyonnais arbitration case for which Bernard Tapie was released at first instance in 2019.
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