“I must have…”: Dominique Tapie reveals the derisory amount of his retirement

On October 3, 2021, Bernard Tapie died at the age of 78 following stomach and esophageal cancer. Behind him, he leaves his wife, Dominique, and his four children. By disappearing, the former businessman also abandoned his debts, leaving his wife alone to manage the colossal sums to be repaid. During an interview for Paris Match, the widow of Bernard Tapie returned to his delicate financial situation. She then indicated that she had to reimburse “to date, 642,172,109 euros! How can we imagine such a thing?”, she wondered. Without having signed a marriage contract, Dominique Tapie must therefore repay all of her husband’s debt. “This is how I found myself entirely responsible for my husband’s debts. When we won the arbitration in 2013, I told him that, after these years of hardship, we would have to make a separation contract property, because I too had been put into liquidation. And he did it. I even had to sell an apartment that I had inherited from my grandmother”.

And we can’t say that his retirement will help him much to get rid of these debts.. Indeed, Dominique Tapie confided in all transparency to our colleagues from Seven to Eight. Admitting to having worked only three years in her life, she was not entitled “to much”: “I must have 300 euros. I have Bernard’s only pension, his pension as a deputy. Half (about half of 1200 euros, editor’s note)”, she confided.

Did Bernard Tapie hide money in a tax haven?

And the Tapie family has always indicated that the patriarch never hid money in a tax haven. “Many moreover remain convinced that he stashed money in a tax haven, I will disappoint them, he stashed nothing at all. For the simple and good reason: Tapie was convinced that he was going to recover Tapie was not in the transmission, he was not an empire builder like Marcel Dassault or Marcel Boussac were. It is paradoxical to be an heir and to inherit nothing. I’ve never been attached to material goods, I’m not interested and that’s better!”, confided Stéphane Tapie.