Bernard Roger Tapie was a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host.
16 Facts About Bernard Tapie
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Bernard Tapie was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Beregovoy.
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The boat was transported to Marseille, where Bernard Tapie had his football team, and restored for two years.
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Bernard Tapie took command of it with a new crew in 1988 and broke the world record for crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bernard Tapie's club was stripped of its French league championship, though not of the Champions League title, and later suffered a forced relegation to the second division because of this match-fixing suspicion.
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In 1994, Bernard Tapie was under criminal investigation for complicity of corruption and witness tampering.
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Bernard Tapie made his fortune in the late 1970s and 1980s by acquiring bankrupt companies.
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Bernard Tapie took up a loan syndicated with a banking pool with a majority of foreign banks, and in minority from French backers, in particular with the SdBO, the subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais group hidden for several years.
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In 1995, Adidas was listed on the Stock Exchange for a valuation of 11 billion francs, nearly six times the price paid by Robert to Bernard Tapie to acquire it.
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Bernard Tapie subsequently had a number of legal difficulties associated with the sale of the company, conducted by the French state-owned Credit Lyonnais, which was sanctioned for lack of loyalty and for breaching the obligation not to buy the company themselves.
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In 1995, Bernard Tapie turned to artistic endeavors because he was unable to pursue his previous interests: he was personally bankrupt and therefore unable to pursue business ventures, he was declared ineligible to run for political office, and he was banned from football.
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Bernard Tapie starred, together with Fabrice Luchini, in Claude Lelouch's 1996 movie Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi.
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From 2001 to 2005, Bernard Tapie acted in theater plays and appeared in the French TV series Valence as a police chief.
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In 2018, Bernard Tapie was diagnosed with double cancer.
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Bernard Tapie was later treated in France and in Belgium, partially with experimental treatments.
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Bernard Tapie had been suffering from stomach cancer for several years.