Bernard Tapie: the brutal death of his first wife who upset his family: Femme Actuelle The MAG

It is a special day for the former Minister of the City. As of January 26, 2021, Bernard Tapie celebrates its seventy-eighth birthday. While the former president of Olympique de Marseille has been battling double cancer of the esophagus and stomach for three years now, he intends to take advantage of this day of celebration to spend time with his family and in particular his wife, Dominique, by his side for forty years. It was also she who had announced her husband's illness to the press on September 24, 2017, confident of optimism and a rage to overcome the disease foolproof. "I will fight like I always have. Death does not scare me", had entrusted the father of four children toAFP, a few days after the terrible news.

Indeed, Bernard Tapie is a fighter man … Before meeting the one who will support him all his life through illness and legal affairs, the politician had put the ring on the finger of a certain Michele Layec… A "young love" with the dramatic outcome.

A discreet woman, swept away by the disease in a few months

At the beginning of the 1960s, Bernard Tapie, in full career as a singer under the name of Bernard Tapy, married Michèle Layec for the first time. However, the young woman, madly in love with her beautiful music lover, does not want to see his couple exposed in the press. This is the reason why the face of the first wife Tapie does not appear in any archive. A few months later, the couple welcomed their first child, Nathalie, who will be joined by Stephane, his little brother. But the portrait of the perfect family will not last … In 1969, Bernard Tapie's family life is turned upside down by his meeting with Dominique Mialet-Damianos, a nineteen-year-old saleswoman, whom he will marry in the process. after divorcing his first wife. A competition that will ultimately turn into a pretty friendship between the two women …

Unfortunately, Dominique Tapie, who raised her husband's two first children as his own, will not be able to benefit from this friendly triangle for long … Indeed, a few years after her divorce from Bernard Tapie, Michèle Layec suddenly dies of leukemia against which she will try to fight for a year. Respectful of the wish for anonymity of his first wife, the former owner of the Adidas brand never spoke of this disappearance. Only his wife, Dominique Tapie, had returned to the love she had for Nathalie and Stéphane in an unprecedented interview with Paris Match in 2013 : "I'm kind of the mainstay of the family. We are lucky to be united against all odds. With my children, we talk a lot. They know everything."

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