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Painter Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for paternity suit 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 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. A Spanish woman, born in 1956, said her mother, a maid, had a clandestine affair with the painter 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.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.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. He was buried in his home town of Figueres in the north-eastern Catalonia region.
Maria Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in Girona made the claim for the first time in 2015. 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). She said her mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, next to where the painter had a home.
At that time, Dalí was married to Gala. The couple had no children. The woman then left her job in 1955, moved to another city and married another man.
The Gala Dalí Foundation has not commented. Ms Martínez claimed that her mother told her several times that Dalí was her father, in many occasions in front of others.
"The only thing I'm missing is a moustache," she once said, according to newspaper El Mundo (in Spanish).
At the time of the alleged affair, Dalí was married to his muse Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova. The couple had no children.
The decision also cites that Ms Martínez underwent two paternity tests, both in 2007, but never received the results.
Her legal action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate.
Ms Martínez's lawyer said there was no date for the exhumation, but that it could happen as soon as July. The Gala Dalí Foundation has not commented.