DALI’S BODY TO BE EXHUMED FOR PATERNITY TEST

A 60-year-old Spanish woman has succeeded in winning a judicial order to have the body of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí exhumed for DNA extraction so that she can know whether she is his daughter.

Dalí died in 1989 at 85 and was previously thought to be childless, though Pilar Abel, a tarot card reader, has been claiming since 2007 that her mother told her of a shortlived, clandestine affair with the artist in the mid-1950s.

Abel has said her main goal is to establish paternity, but after filing a lawsuit in 2015, she told The New York Times that she was also seeking “whatever corresponds to me.” Dali bequeathed his estate to the Spanish state upon his death.