Interviewed by France Info on the occasion of the reissue of her record 1988, in augmented version, Sophie Tapie evoked her life and that of her clan since Bernard died, carried away after a long battle against cancer. The family, who knew that the question of the inheritance would be delicate because of the debts of the deceased and the legal pressure, is coping. Dominique, the matriarch, must now continue alone even if friends help her, especially from a financial point of view; the mansion where she lived with her husband was bought by François Pinault.
Sophie Tapie grew up in a family led with an iron fist but with love by Bernard Tapie. And it was not easy! “Sometimes it was complicated, even at family dinners the attention had to be on him. He was the boss. But it’s good on the other hand, because despite all the storms we went through, there was still the captain. The boat was my mother. But the captain was at his post, he never abandoned his post and it’s super reassuring“, recounts the young woman. The one who went through the set of the show The Voice on TF1 adds that his mother Dominique has “more wisdom“in relation to his late dad.
Truly admiring her mother – who was married to Bernard Tapie from 1987 to 2021 -, who is now a widow and facing the titanic problems left by her husband at his death, Sophie Tapie adds: “She is even stronger than my father. She doesn’t show herself, but she has, I think, even more balls than him, quite honestly. She is going through something absolutely infamous right now, completely left out, but she is unfailingly strong. I try to get as close to her as possible.“Dominique Tapie, who had been badly banged up by burglars in the house she owned with Bernard in Seine-et-Marne, actually plays the card of discretion, as she already did during her marriage. , there is no doubt that she can count on her family to get through this bad patch.