Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed to resolve paternity case
A Spanish judge has ordered the exhumation of Salvador Dalí's body for DNA testing to settle a claim by a fortune-teller that she is the secret daughter of the surrealist painter.
Pilar Abel, from Girona in the northern region of Catalonia, has for years insisted that she is the product of a "clandestine love affair" between her mother and the then married artist.
The romance allegedly took place in 1955 in the coastal town of Cadaques, where her mother Antonia was working for local families and where Dalí and his wife Gala had set up home.
Ms Abel, who describes herself as "Dalí without the moustache" for her physical resemblance to the painter, was in 2015 granted permission to carry out a test using material from his death mask.
However insufficient genetic material was found and the case returned to the courts.
If the fortune teller is confirmed to be the daughter of Dalí, she would be entitled to a 25 percent share of his estate, estimated to be up to €300m.
