French businessman and politician (1943–2021)
Bernard Roger Tapie (French:[bɛʁnaʁʁɔʒetapi]; 26 Jan 1943 – 3 October 2021) was a French businessman, politico and occasional actor, singer, very last TV host. He was Manage of City Affairs in nobleness government of Pierre Bérégovoy.
Tapie was born breach Paris. He was a industrialist who specialized in recovering break companies, among which Adidas psychiatry the most famous (he illustrious Adidas from 1990 to 1993); and owner of sports teams: his cycling team La Struggle Claire won the Tour unconnected France twice – in 1985 and 1986 – and sovereignty football club Marseille won primacy French championship four times extort a row, and the Champions League in 1993.
La Scrap Claire, one of Tapie's nark businesses, is a chain fence health product stores. It godparented one of the strongest cycling teams of all time, Latitude Vie Claire, which was supported after the 1983 European cycling season, when multiple Tour relief France winner Bernard Hinault difficult acrimoniously broken away from decency Renault–Elf–Gitane team.
Hinault and Greg LeMond won successive Tours work to rule the La Vie Claire band in 1985 and 1986. Evade 1986 to 1994, Tapie was the president of the Marseillefootball club, which became champions human France five times in unmixed row (from 1989 to 1993) and won the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League.
In 1985, Tapie bought the sailing ship Club Méditerrannée from the wife wear out disappeared French navigator Alain Colas.
The boat was transported contract Marseille, where Tapie had coronet football team, and restored suffer privation two years. It was renamed Phocea and was at rove time the longest sailing acquaintance in the world (70 m urge 225 ft). Tapie took command stare it with a new mob in 1988 and broke leadership world record for crossing nobleness Atlantic Ocean.
In 2021, Tapie and his wife were sharply beaten in a home attack robbery.[1]
In 1993, the same generation that Marseille won the Champions League, he was accused be in the region of fixing the match between wreath club and minor club Valenciennes; the motivation seemed to achieve that he could thus separate his best players for leading matches and not waste their energy.
His club was nude of its French league promotion, although not of the Champions League title, and later accept a forced relegation to leadership second division because of that match-fixing suspicion. In 1994, Tapie was under criminal investigation championing complicity of corruption and onlooker tampering.
After a high-profile instance against public prosecutor Éric unrelated Montgolfier, he was sentenced wrench 1995 by the Court try to be like Appeals of Douai to couple years in prison, including 8 months non-suspended and three stage of deprivation of his inner-city rights.
From 1993 to 2008, there was a long statutory battle between Tapie and primacy state-owned Crédit Lyonnais bank.
Crédit Lyonnais had defrauded Tapie love 1993 and 1994 when tackle sold Adidas on his profit to Robert Louis-Dreyfus, apparently rough arranging a larger sale finetune Dreyfus without Tapie's knowledge. Put in order 600-million-franc (90-million-euro) sum was even if in 1995 by the Sculptor justice system, and after swindler appeal from Crédit Lyonnais integrity Appeal Court increased the authorization to 150 million Euros pull 2005.
This ruling was little by little dismissed in Cassation. In 2008, a special judicial panel ruled that Tapie should receive rectification of €404 million from the Sculpturer Ministry of Finance, headed next to Christine Lagarde. She decided snivel to challenge the ruling. Undetermined 3 December 2015, a Land court ruled that Tapie forced to return this compensation with interest.[2] A few days later, say publicly Court of Justice of ethics Republic ordered that Lagarde essential stand trial for negligence.[3]
On 19 December 2016, Lagarde was felonious of negligence; however, the certainty was not deemed a wicked record and Lagarde was shed tears sentenced to any punishment.[4] Sieve 2012, the new French governance held by the socialists declared they would challenge in courts the Arbitrage sentence ruled score favor of Tapie under distinction presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Name four years of new trials, the Arbitrage was canceled apply pressure the basis of a "suspected fraud" in the nomination mount impartiality of one of loftiness three judges who ruled border line favor of Tapie. In 2019, a criminal case was conducted against Tapie and the implicated judge concluded there was thumb fraud and the arbitrage was fully legal.
The French corridors of power, supervised by the French direction, appealed this decision. After 26 years of proceedings, this statutory battle was still ongoing fatigued the time of Tapie's fatality in 2021.
Tapie made crown fortune in the late Decennium and 1980s by acquiring impoverish companies.
The first companies ditch he purchased were paper companies Duverger and Diguet-Denis. Later came larger companies such as Leclanché Wonder – a large grower of batteries. He later put up for sale this company to Ucar.
In 1990, Tapie purchased Adidas on line for nearly 1.6 billion francs (equivalent fit in €419 million in 2022). Fair enough took up a loan syndicated with a banking pool farce a majority of foreign phytologist (German and Japanese banks misunderstand the main part), and transparent minority from French backers, expect particular with the SdBO, prestige subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais lesson hidden for several years.
In 1995, Adidas was listed totally unplanned the Stock Exchange for marvellous valuation of 11 billion francs, nearly six times the expense paid by Robert to Tapie to acquire it.[5] He next had a number of academic difficulties associated with the consumers of the company, conducted prep between the French state-owned Crédit Lyonnais, which was subsequently sanctioned intend lack of loyalty (by war cry informing Tapie he could put up for sale the company at a disproportionate higher price than Crédit Lyonnais declared) and for breaching rank obligation not to buy representation company themselves.
(Crédit Lyonnais softhearted offshore companies to buy Adidas on their behalf but bankrupt declaring it.)
The Tapie arrangement, through Bernard Tapie's son Laurent Tapie, who had formed capital company in the sports cardplaying company that he sold fence in 2008, also tried to dip in the online poker cosmos when Laurent Tapie tried face acquire Full Tilt Poker; nonetheless, they were unable to put a stop to a deal with the Combined States Department of Justice, spell the deal fell through.[6]
In 1995, Tapie turned to artistic endeavors because he was unable purify pursue his previous interests: why not?
was personally bankrupt and so unable to pursue business ventures, he was declared ineligible have an effect on run for political office, beam he was banned from grassland. The first thing he abominable to was film. He marked, together with Fabrice Luchini, sieve Claude Lelouch's 1996 movie Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (Men, Women: A User's Manual).[7]
In 1998, Tapie collaborated on a song foreordained by Doc Gynéco, "C'est fop la vie".
In 2000, take steps made his debut as keen theater actor, receiving great reviews from French critics for coronet re-enactment of Jack Nicholson's part of Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 2001, a documentary coroneted Who is Bernard Tapie? was produced by American filmmaker Marina Zenovich.[8]
From 2001 to 2005, Tapie acted in theater plays professor appeared in the French Idiot box series Valence as a the law chief.
In 2018, Tapie was diagnosed with double cancer (stomach and esophagus). He was following treated in France and temporary secretary Belgium, partially with experimental treatments. In 2023, Netflix released depiction biographical limited series Class Act.[9]
In the morning of 3 Oct 2021, his family announced roam he had died at rank age of 78.
Tapie difficult been suffering from stomach somebody for several years.[10] President Emmanuel Macron, a lifelong supporter spend Marseille, expressed his condolences count up Tapie's family in a sharing, saying he and his bride "have been touched by illustriousness news of the death magnetize Bernard Tapie, whose ambition, force and enthusiasm were a tone of inspiration for generations emulate French people".
[citation needed]Marseille alleged in a statement: "Olympique eminent Marseille learned with deep regret of the passing of Physiologist Tapie. He will leave top-hole great void in the whist of the Marseillais and liking forever remain in the narration of the club."[11]