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Spanish Judge Orders Salvador Dali's Body Exhumed

by VOA News

   A Spanish court has given permission for the remains of famed
   surrealist painter Salvador Dali to be exhumed as part of a paternity
   test.

   The judge in Catalonia ruled the body will be dug up July 20.

   A woman claims Dali was her father. She has given a saliva sample that
   will be used to compare her DNA with that of Dali's.

   Maria Pilar Abel, 61, alleges her mother and Dali had an affair in the
   fishing village where he lived.

   Abel said she only wants to be recognized as the artist's daughter and
   has no interest in collecting any money.

   The Salvador Dali Foundation is appealing the exhumation order.

   Dali, who died in 1989, is the world's most renown surrealist painter.
   His picture melting watches, The Persistence of Memory, is an icon of
   surrealism.

   He is also known for a long pencil-thin moustache and eccentric
   behavior.