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'Salvador Dali is my dad'
A woman claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Salvador Dali has initiated a legal battle to prove his paternity and could ask for his body to be exhumed for DNA testing.
- The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2008
- Published: 23:59 August 12, 2008
Madrid: A woman claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Salvador Dali has initiated a legal battle to prove his paternity and could ask for his body to be exhumed for DNA testing.
The 56-year-old woman, identified only as Pilar A, claims the surrealist artist had an affair with her mother who worked as a maid for a family who spent a summer holiday in Cadaques, Catalonia, where the artist lived. She said DNA testing on skin and hair from a death mask of the artist last year proved inconclusive.
A lawyer acting for the woman said: "If necessary we will ultimately request the exhumation of his corpse."
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