Samples taken from Salvador Dali's body to resolve paternity suit


Workers carry a coffin to be used during the exhumation of Spanish artist Salvador Dali, in order to obtain DNA samples following a paternity claim, at Teatre-Museu Dali (Theater-Museum Dali) in Figueras city, Spain, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Albert Gea

FIGUERAS, Spain (Reuters) - Forensic scientists and legal experts began taking DNA samples from the embalmed body of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali on Thursday to try to resolve a paternity claim.

Maria Pilar Abel, who was born in 1956 in the northern Spanish town of Figueras - Dali's home town and the place he is buried - claims her mother had an affair with the painter and has been trying to prove she is his daughter for years.

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