We prove the Lewy–Stampacchia’s inequality for elliptic variational inequalities with obstacle involving Leray–Lions type operator whose simpler model case is given by the following $$\begin{aligned} u \in W^{1,N}_0(\Omega )\mapsto -\Delta _N u-\text {div}\left( B (x) |u|^{N-2}u \right) \end{aligned}$$
u
∈
W
0
1
,
N
(
Ω
)
↦
-
Δ
N
u
-
div
B
(
x
)
|
u
|
N
-
2
u
where $$\Omega $$
Ω
is a smooth bounded domain of $$\mathbb {R}^N$$
R
N
with $$N\geqslant 2$$
N
⩾
2
, $$\Delta _N u$$
Δ
N
u
denotes the classical N–Laplacian operator and the coefficient $$B:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb {R}^N$$
B
:
Ω
→
R
N
belongs to a suitable Lorentz–Zygmund space. For this kind of obstacle problems, we also provide regularity results and amongst them we give sufficient conditions to get boundedness of solutions.