Salvador Dali’s Body to be Exhumed in Paternity Case

Source: AP
The body of Spanish artist Salvador Dali is to be exhumed in order to prove, or disprove a woman’s claims she is his illegitimate daughter.

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The woman, who was born in 1956, claims she is the result of an extramarital affair between Dali and her mother who worked as a maid.
On Monday a court in Madrid, Spain ordered the surrealist artist’s body to be exhumed “to get samples of his remains to determine whether he is the biological father.”

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The woman, Pilar Abel Martinez, has been trying to prove she is Dali’s daughter since 2007. Martinez claims her mother told her she was involved in a secret relationship with the painter when she worked as a maid for a family in Port Lligat close to the Spanish border with France.
The Salvador Dali Foundation have revealed they will appeal the courts order to exhume Dali’s body.