'Salvador Dali is my dad'

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."