Bernard Tapie, the businessman, actor, former politician and one-time president of Olympique de Marseille football club passed away aged 78.
“Dominique Tapie and his family have the immense sadness to announce the death of her husband and their father, Bernard Tapie, this Sunday,” his family said in a statement to La Provence newspaper, in which Tapie held a majority stake.
“He left peacefully, surrounded by his wife, his children and grandchildren, who were at his bedside,” the statement continued, adding that Tapie wished to be buried in Marseille, “the city of his heart”.
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