In October 2021, Bernard Tapie disappeared at the age of 78. A little over a year after his death, his widow Dominique Tapie made her media comeback by publishing a book called: “Bernard, the fury of living” where she recounts their 52 years of life together but also her complicated daily life after death. of the famous businessman.
After a strongly criticized passage in “Sept à Huit”, Dominique Tapie was this Wednesday March 22, 2023 on the set of the program “C à vous” on France 5. “This man whom you loved with great lucidity, you ‘have also sometimes cursed and hated after his disappearance…” then asked Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. To which she replied: “Yes, it happened to me, it is no longer the case but when I found myself in a difficult and precarious situation, when I had to leave the marital home in which I lived 35 years, and when I found myself without resources I did not understand…”.
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Dominique Tapie gives a rant
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine then points out that the widow discovered, after the death of Bernard Tapie, that she was jointly and severally liable for a debt of 649 million euros. Dominique Tapie claims not to have been aware of this debt before: “He didn’t know it either, it’s interest that I’m being asked for, the initial debt has been repaid in full”.
Ruined, the 72-year-old widow was sorry that many other women were in the same situation as her: “I find it hopeless, I don’t understand, are we still under the Napoleon Code in France? there may be something to do for women who, indeed, are like me, in solidarity with their husbands, those who are in the older generation because I have never paid attention to his affairs”.
Forced to leave their mansion located at 52 rue des Saints-Pères in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Dominique lives today thanks to the help of a famous minister who agreed to pay her the rent for a new, more modest accommodation. .
“I find it hopeless that many women are in my case, in solidarity with their husbands, that nothing is in our name… are we still under the Napoleon Code in France?!”A life with Bernard Tapie: Dominique Tapie in #ThisYoupic.twitter.com/yb3fDgnLkC
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