Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for DNA test

Judge rules paternity test is needed to settle tarot-card reader's claims she is the surrealist artist's only child

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A Spanish court has ordered Salvador Dali's body be exhumed as part of a long-running paternity suit.

Maria Pilar Abel Martinez, 61, a tarot-card reader who was born in the surrealist artist's home town of Figueres, claims her mother had a clandestine affair with Dali in 1955, while working as a maid for his neighbours.

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