Paris: French business greater than the life of Mogul Bernard But, who died on Sunday 78 years old, is a symbol of the best and worst free market capitalism.
His Swashbuckling career opposed business, sports, politics, and art, but also scandals and prisons.
But, who revealed in 2017 that he had stomach cancer and esophagus, made a broad wealth, lost it and then returned again, only to end his life broke out after the scandal embedded by Christine Lagarde, now the head of the European center.
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“If there is one thing I know how, it makes the dough,” a permanently painted tycoon has bragged.
But in 2015 he was forced to admit: “I was destroyed.
I have nothing.” Like many of the flamboyant declarations, it must be taken with a pinch of salt – even though he really got to some of his big houses.
Born in Paris, which was occupied on January 26, 1943, the beginning of a simple but selling television by the day in the Belleville worker class while trying his hand as a crooner at night.
But he immediately threw away the song and gathered a small kingdom when he was 30 years old by taking over a failed company, taking 50 in a few years.
In 1990 he became headlines by buying a giant Sportswear Germany Adidas – purchase which will then haunt him.
He showed off his wealth, bought a spacious Paris townhouse and a series of massive houses in the French Riviera and a 72-meter cruise ship (236 feet).
The sports fan with Build Boxer, but also used his wealth to buy a cycling team that won the Tour de France twice.
In 1986 he bought one of the most loved French football clubs, Olympique de Marseille, guiding the team for five consecutive league wins and 1993 Champions League title.
Behind the success he faked a political career, won the election to the French parliament in 1989 and 1993 and became the representative of the European Parliament in 1994 after serving briefly as a minister under President Francois Mitterrand.
But things began to break down for the father of four when he faced a lot of legal misery, including the allegations of the installation of the match while he was in Marseille.
Claims pollute the victory of the Champions League team – the only time French club has won the trophy.
Players from small clubs revealed that they had received bribes to facilitate Marseille in the match before their Champions League final.
But it served six months in prison in 1997 because of its role in the scandal, part of it in matters isolation.
The affair caused the collapse of the business kingdom, and he was declared bankrupt and was prohibited from serving as directors of the company or in any public office.
Friends and families describe it as a broken man, but his old showbiz skills help him get back up and turn to acting, especially in the popular TV series where he played – without a small irony – a police inspector.
And the scratch seems to have returned in 2008 when the government’s arbitration panel accepted him has been a victim of fraud when he sold Adidas in 1993, governing that the brand had been underestimated.
He was awarded compensation payment of 404 million euros ($ 450 million), the size sent shock waves through France.
But managed to pay off the debt and was able to buy the French Hersant Publishing Group, a series of property and other cruise ships, which he named “Reborn”.
But this case was appealed and in May 2017 a court ordered it to restore payment – and he went bankrupt again.
Saga also ensnare Lagarde, who is the French Economic Minister when the panel ruled in supporting but was badly accused of dealing with this problem.
After his cancer became public, but he said he would “fight as he always did”.
“The idea of ​​dying, it didn’t bother me at all,” he told the Le Monde newspaper.
You have to be “crazy not to be happy with my life.” In July 2019 he was released on charges of deceiving countries in controversial arbitration cases.
But he hadn’t come out of the forest because the new case was taken against him.
The experiment began in May with a severe sickness in hospitals and prosecutors demanding a five-year sentence and a fine of 300,000 euros.
The judge was caused by their decision on October 6.