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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) for two periods in 1992-1993, in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... January is the first month of the year and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (December 23, 1925 - May 1, 1993) was a French Socialist politician of russian origin. ...

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. La Vie Claire was a professional road bicycle racing team, named after its chief sponsor. ... Police officer on a bicycle Cycling is a recreation, a sport and a means of transport across land. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Tour de France is the worlds best known cycling race, a three week long road race that covers a circuit of most areas around France, and sometimes neighbouring countries. ... Bernard Hinault (born 14 November 1954) is a French cyclist best known for his five victories in the Tour de France. ... Laurent Fignon (born August 12, 1960 in Paris) is a French cyclist, who won the Tour de France twice in 1983 and 1984, and missed winning it a third time, in 1989, by a very narrow margin. ... LeMond at the start of the last stage in the 1990 Tour de France. ...

From 1986 to 1994, he was president of the Olympique de Marseille soccer club, which became Champion of France and won the Champions League. 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; 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 French league championship, though not of the Champions League title, and later suffered a forced relegation to the second division 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. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... The UEFA Champions League (formerly named but still often called the European Cup) is an annual club football competition organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the most successful football clubs in Europe. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Valenciennes Football Club (known as Valenciennes FC or as USVA, the acronym of a previous name), are a French football club (team), who were founded in 1915. ... Ligue 1 (Première Division or Division 1 until 2003) is the top division of French football, one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 2. ... Ligue 2 is the second division of French football. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... In countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system, the prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution. ... Éric de Montgolfier is a famous French prosecutor (procureur de la République). ... Court of Appeals is the title of certain appellate courts in various jurisdictions. ... Douai is a city and commune in the north of France in the département of Nord, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bernard Tapie was also prosecuted for tax fraud. This article contrasts tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax resistance and tax mitigation. ...

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. Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crédit Lyonnais is a French bank. ... Adidas AG (ISIN: DE0005003404) is a German sports apparel manufacturer, part of the Adidas Group, which is the second largest sportswear manufacturer worldwide. ... Robert Louis-Dreyfus is the owner of a French football club, Olympique de Marseille, as well as the current owner of Adidas. ... For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation) or EUR (disambiguation). ...

He starred, together with Fabrice Luchini, in Claude Lelouch's 1996 movie Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (Men, Women: A User's Manual). Fabrice Luchini (born November 1, 1951) is a French actor. ... Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer and producer. ...

Also, in 1998, he collaborated in a song by French artist Doc Gynéco, "C'est beau la vie." Doc Gynéco is a popular French hip hop artist. ...

A documentary was recently made titled Who is Bernard Tapie? by American filmmaker Marina Zenovich.

External links

• Tapiomca Fansite