Are you my surreal dad? Salvador Dali to be exhumed in paternity case
Figueres — Salvador Dali’s remains are to be exhumed on Thursday from his Spanish hometown in an effort to test a fortune teller’s claims the renowned surrealist is her father. The artist’s body is buried in the elaborate museum of his work Dali designed himself in the northeastern Spanish town of Figueres, where he was born more than 110 years ago. Pilar Abel, a 61-year-old who long worked as a psychic in Catalonia, says her mother had a relationship with the artist when she worked in Port Lligat, a tiny fishing hamlet where the painter lived for years. If Abel is confirmed as the only child of Dali, she could be entitled to part of the huge fortune and heritage of one of the most celebrated and prolific painters of the 20th century. The Salvador Dali Foundation had tried to fight off the exhumation with an appeal, but there was not enough time for all parties to present their case, a court spokesman told AFP. Barring some "administrative or logistical surprise", the exhumation wil...
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