Bernard Tapie had been married to Dominique since 1987. The couple had gone through 50 years of financial success, political commitment and legal setbacks.
Bernard Tapie died of cancer on Sunday, October 3, 2021. The businessman, known for his business acquisitions and his political career as well as for his quarrels with the law, succumbed after four years of fighting a double Cancer. Bernard Tapie is the romantic character with a thousand lives, and he is also a clan. Today, the family tightens around his widow Dominique. The Tapie couple is 50 years of a rather traditional couple, with a woman behind her husband to support him in his public life. Dominique Tapie is a discreet wife, which describes itself as “the pillar of the family” in Paris Match in 2013. Discreet and solid wife, who takes care to remain in control of her emotions. Dominique has not spoken to the media about her husband’s disappearance. It was his step-son Stéphane who gave news of his mother-in-law.
The Bernard Tapie clan tightens around Dominique
Son from the first union of Bernard Tapie, Stéphane gave himself to the microphone of M6 on the disappearance of his father. He confided feeling “a lot of pride and a lot of good in the heart” to receive messages of love in reaction to his death. He also gave news of Dominique. “Obviously she is touched, but the clan is united around her” he confesses. “She spent fifty years of her life by his side, that’s not nothing”, added Stéphane, stressing that “fifty years by his side, it is even less”. The two spouses met on the occasion of the hiring of Dominique, 19, by Bernard, 26, as an assistant accountant. She declared in 2013 at Paris Match: “like all women, I am a bit the pillar of the family. We are lucky to be united against all odds. We are married for better or for worse. It is the normal rule for a couple who love each other “.
Bernard Tapie’s funeral will take place in Marseille, the city of the businessman’s heart.