Bernard Tapie

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Bernard Tapie
Tapie in 1994
Minister of City Affairs
In office 26 December 1992 – 28 March 1993
President	François Mitterrand
Prime Minister	Pierre Bérégovoy
Preceded by	François Loncle
Succeeded by	Simone Veil
In office 2 April 1992 – 23 May 1992
President	François Mitterrand
Prime Minister	Pierre Bérégovoy
Preceded by	André Laignel
Succeeded by	François Loncle
Member of the National Assembly
In office 2 April 1993 – 5 September 1996
Preceded by	Yves Vidal
Succeeded by	Roger Meï
Constituency	Bouches-du-Rhône 10
In office 22 January 1989 – 26 December 1992
Preceded by	Guy Teissier
Succeeded by	Jean-Claude Chermann
Constituency	Bouches-du-Rhône 6
Personal details
Born	Bernard Roger Tapie (1943-01-26)26 January 1943 Paris, Occupied France
Died	3 October 2021(2021-10-03) (aged 78) Paris, France
Political party	Radical Party of the Left
Children	4, including Sophie
Profession	Businessman politician actor singer television presenter
Military service
Allegiance	France
Branch/service	French Army
Years of service	1963–1964
Unit	93e régiment d'infanterie

Bernard Roger Tapie (French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʁɔʒe tapi]; 26 January 1943 – 3 October 2021) was a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy.

He was the manager of a group of companies, notably owner of Adidas and Olympique de Marseille, manager of the Bernard Tapie Group and owner of the La Provence Group, which publishes the newspaper of the same name, as well as Corse-Matin.

At the beginning of 1984, he presented his cycling team La Vie claire, then bought OM a few years later.

In the 1990s, engaged in politics as a left-wing radical, he was twice Minister of the City in the Bérégovoy government, deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône twice, European deputy (his list obtained 12% in the 1994 elections) as well as general councilor for Bouches-du-Rhône.

His political career ended due to his legal troubles. Involved in several financial scandals, he was convicted in the VA-OM affair (for which he was imprisoned in 1997 for nearly six months), in the Phocéa affair and in the Testut affair.

In the 2010s, following an arbitration condemning the State to pay him 403 million euros in compensation in the context of the Crédit Lyonnais affair, he was prosecuted again, his death putting an end to the criminal proceedings.