This Wednesday, December 11, Dominique Tapie was the guest of the show At Jordan's. The widow of Bernard Tapie spoke about the debts left by her late husband and about her new lifestyle.
On October 3, 2021, Bernard Tapie died from cancer, leaving behind his wife Dominique after 52 years of living together. Since that day, the businessman's widow has been drowning in debt due to the dispute between her husband and Crédit Lyonnais in the Adidas affair. Financial problems that she agreed to discuss in At Jordan'sthis Wednesday, December 11. “I have a debt of 640 or 650 million euros, but I don’t even count anymore. It’s so pharaonic, it’s unreal!”she said.
“Every day it adds up” : Dominique Tapie talks about the debts left by her husband after his death
Worse still, Dominique Tapie explained that this debt was increasing a little more every day. “I am being charged interest, even though the initial sum was repaid with my husband's assets. What he had received from the arbitration was repaid. But there, while there is still assets, I don't take care of anything. There was a trial that ruled in his favor, but the state appealed that trial […] and every day it accumulates“she detailed. Since the death of her husband, Dominique Tapie has been able to count on the support of relatives like Jean-Louis Borloo, who found her new accommodation when she had to leave the Parisian mansion in which she was staying. “And I have other very close friends who help me”she confided.
“1 800 euros” : Dominique Tapie reveals the amount she lives on each month
Today, Dominique Tapie leads a lifestyle very different from the one she had known in the past. Faced with Jordan de Luxe, the widow of Bernard Tapie explained that she supported herself thanks to her husband's deputy pension and other small sources of income. “I live on half of his MP pension which was 2,400 euros, so 1,200 euros. […] In total, I have 1,700, 1,800 euros”explained the one who can count on her son Laurent to pay her rent. “I no longer live in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, I moved. It was beyond my means”she revealed. Finally, Dominique Tapie had to part with several valuable objects. “I sold bags, jewelry, everything that was left to me, personal things”she concluded.
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