Scandal-ridden French tycoon Bernard Tapie dies aged 78

Business magnate who also turned his hand to sport, politics and acting, dies four years after cancer diagnosis

Bernard Tapie, the businessman, actor, former politician and one-time president of Olympique de Marseille football club, whose larger-than-life career and recurring legal problems made him one of France's best-known personalities, has died aged 78.

Tapie, who led Marseille to the Champions League title in 1993 and whose business interests also included a major stake in the German sportswear brand Adidas acquired in 1990, had been suffering from stomach cancer for nearly five years.