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Bernard Tapie (born January 26, 1943 in Paris) is a
France businessman,
politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was
Ministre de la Ville (Minister of City Affairs) in the government of
Pierre Bérégovoy, until his resignation in May 1992 because of his indictment by the French justice.
Career
One of Tapie's businesses, a chain of health product stores known as
La Vie Claire, sponsored one of the strongest cycling teams of all time. It was founded after the 1983 season when multiple
Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault broke from the Renault-Elf team that also featured another Tour winner in Laurent Fignon after a falling-out with team manager,
Cyril Guimard. Following Hinault to the new team was
Greg LeMond, who would go on to win three Tours himself. Both Hinault and LeMond would win Tours with the
La Vie Claire team.
From 1986 to 1994, he was president of the
Olympique de Marseille soccer club, which became Champion of France and won the UEFA Champions League. In May 1992, he was forced to resign of his function as Minister of City, by the Prime minister Pierre Bérégovoy, who thus established the misnamed "Balladur jurisprudence," according to which an indicted member of the government should resign La mise en examen de M. Santini n'a pas empêché sa nomination au gouvernement,
Le Monde, 22 June 2007 .
In 1993, the same year that OM won the Champions League, he was accused of fixing the match between his club and minor club Valenciennes FC; the motivation seemed to be that, in this way, he could save his best players for important matches and not waste their energy. His club was stripped of its Ligue 1 championship, though not of the Champions League title, and later suffered a forced relegation to the Ligue 2 because of financial irregularities widely blamed on Tapie. In 1994, Tapie was put under criminal investigation for complicity of corruption and subornation of witnesses. After a high profile case against
public prosecutor Éric de Montgolfier, he was sentenced in 1995 by the Court of Appeals of Douai to 2 years in prison, including 8 months non-suspended and 3 years of deprivation of his civic rights. He was incarcerated for about 6 months in 1997.
Bernard Tapie was also prosecuted for
tax evasion.
Mid-1990s to today
On September 30, 2005, a French court ended a long legal battle between Tapie and the
Crédit Lyonnais bank. Crédit Lyonnais had allegedly defrauded Tapie in 1993 and 1994 when it sold
Adidas on his behalf to
Robert Louis-Dreyfus, apparently by arranging a larger sale with Dreyfus without Tapie's knowledge. The court awarded 135 million euros to Tapie. This decision was overturned on October 9, 2006 by the appeals court. Wikinews, La Cour de cassation casse l'arrêt en faveur de Bernard Tapie
He starred, together with
Fabrice Luchini, in
Claude Lelouch's 1996 movie
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (
Men, Women: A User's Manual).
Also, in 1998, he collaborated in a song by French artist
Doc Gynéco, "C'est beau la vie."
In the
French presidential election, 2007, he supported
UMP candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy, despite having been a minister in a Socialist government, and being a member of the Left Radical Party. According to
Le Canard enchaîné, this support was won by Sarkozy because of taxes issues which he would have promise to resolve following his election.
A documentary was recently made titled
Who is Bernard Tapie? by American filmmaker Marina Zenovich.
References
Bernard Tapie (born January 26, 1943 in Paris) is a
France businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was
Ministre de la Ville (Minister of City Affairs) in the government of
Pierre Bérégovoy, until his resignation in May 1992 because of his indictment by the French justice.
Career
One of Tapie's businesses, a chain of health product stores known as
La Vie Claire, sponsored one of the strongest
cycling teams of all time. It was founded after the 1983 season when multiple Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault broke from the Renault-Elf team that also featured another Tour winner in Laurent Fignon after a falling-out with team manager,
Cyril Guimard. Following Hinault to the new team was
Greg LeMond, who would go on to win three Tours himself. Both Hinault and LeMond would win Tours with the
La Vie Claire team.
From 1986 to 1994, he was president of the
Olympique de Marseille soccer club, which became Champion of France and won the UEFA Champions League. In May 1992, he was forced to resign of his function as Minister of City, by the Prime minister Pierre Bérégovoy, who thus established the misnamed "
Balladur jurisprudence," according to which an indicted member of the government should resign La mise en examen de M. Santini n'a pas empêché sa nomination au gouvernement,
Le Monde, 22 June 2007 .
In 1993, the same year that OM won the Champions League, he was accused of fixing the match between his club and minor club
Valenciennes FC; the motivation seemed to be that, in this way, he could save his best players for important matches and not waste their energy. His club was stripped of its
Ligue 1 championship, though not of the Champions League title, and later suffered a forced relegation to the Ligue 2 because of financial irregularities widely blamed on Tapie. In 1994, Tapie was put under criminal investigation for complicity of corruption and subornation of witnesses. After a high profile case against public prosecutor
Éric de Montgolfier, he was sentenced in 1995 by the
Court of Appeals of
Douai to 2 years in prison, including 8 months non-suspended and 3 years of deprivation of his civic rights. He was incarcerated for about 6 months in 1997.
Bernard Tapie was also prosecuted for
tax evasion.
Mid-1990s to today
On September 30, 2005, a French court ended a long legal battle between Tapie and the Crédit Lyonnais bank. Crédit Lyonnais had allegedly defrauded Tapie in 1993 and 1994 when it sold
Adidas on his behalf to Robert Louis-Dreyfus, apparently by arranging a larger sale with Dreyfus without Tapie's knowledge. The court awarded 135 million euros to Tapie. This decision was overturned on October 9, 2006 by the appeals court. Wikinews, La Cour de cassation casse l'arrêt en faveur de Bernard Tapie
He starred, together with
Fabrice Luchini, in
Claude Lelouch's 1996 movie
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (
Men, Women: A User's Manual).
Also, in 1998, he collaborated in a song by French artist
Doc Gynéco, "C'est beau la vie."
In the French presidential election, 2007, he supported UMP candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy, despite having been a minister in a Socialist government, and being a member of the Left Radical Party. According to
Le Canard enchaîné, this support was won by Sarkozy because of taxes issues which he would have promise to resolve following his election.
A documentary was recently made titled
Who is Bernard Tapie? by American filmmaker
Marina Zenovich.
References
Bernard Tapie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Tapie (born January 26, 1943 in Paris) is a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Ministre de la Ville (Minister of City Affairs ...
BBC - BBC Four Storyville - Marina Zenovich Interview
Marina Zenovich talks about her three and half years tracking down the flamboyant Bernard Tapie ... printable version. WHO IS BERNARD TAPIE? INTERVIEW. MARINA ZENOVICH : Bernard ...
BBC - BBC Four Storyville - Who is Bernard Tapie?
Marina Zenovich's four-year quest to find out more about the multi-talented Bernard Tapie ... WHO IS BERNARD TAPIE? Marina Zenovich, USA, 2001 BBC Two, Tuesday 28 May 2002 11.20pm ...
Bernard Tapie - Channel 4 Film
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Bernard Tapie - Wikipédia
Bernard Tapie, né le 26 janvier 1943 dans le 20e arrondissement de Paris, est un homme d'affaires, homme politique, animateur de télévision et acteur français à la réputation ...
Bernard Tapie
Soundtrack: Who Is Bernard Tapie? (2001) (performer: "Le Blues du Businessman", "Je Ne Crois Pas Les Filles", "My Way", "C'est Beau La Vie")
Who Is Bernard Tapie? (2001)
Plot: This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who... more | add synopsis
ZoomInfo Web Profile: Bernard Tapie
About ZoomInfo: Founded in 1999, ZoomInfo is a Web-based service that extracts information about people and companies from millions of published resources on the Web. Using an ...
SoccerBlog.com: Soccer crooks: Bernard Tapie, folk hero or snakeoil ...
Marina Zenovich finally meets Tapie. Soccer as with every professional sport has its share of crooks and swindlers. The recent indictment of Luciano 'Lucky' Moggi, the former ...
BBC NEWS | Business | Flamboyant Tapie wins bank case
French taxpayers must pay out 135m euros to former tycoon Bernard Tapie over the sale of his Adidas empire.
