Australia: Putting paternity claims to rest

By Mondaq on 10/30/2017

\”… Salvador Dali, one of the fathers of surrealist art, died in 1989 and is buried in his museum in the north-eastern town of Figueres in Spain. Dali bestowed his estate to the Spanish state however, a fortune teller by the name of Pilar Abel from the nearby city of Girona claimed she was the offspring of an affair between Dali and her mother, Antonia. In response, a Spanish judge ordered the exhumation of his remains in order to settle the paternity suit – despite loud condemnation from those who labelled her as a gold-digger. …\”

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