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| Painter Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for paternity suit | |
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| A judge in Madrid has ordered the exhumation of the body of Spanish artist Salvador Dalí to get samples for a paternity suit. | |
| A Spanish woman, Pilar Abel, says the painter is her father. She says he had an affair with a maid in 1955. | |
| In ordering the exhumation, the judge said there were no biological remains or personal objects of the artist to be used in the paternity test. | |
| The surrealist painter died in Spain in 1989, aged 85. | |
| He was buried in his home town of Figueres in north-eastern Catalonia region of Spain. | |
| Maria Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in Girona made the claim for the first time in 2015. | |
| She said her mother had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, next to where the painter had a home, Spanish newspaper El País reports (in Spanish). | |
| At that time, Dalí was married to Gala. The couple had no children. | |
| The Gala Dalí Foundation has not commented. |