Exhumation Shows Spanish Woman Not Salvador Dalí's Daughter, Foundation Says

[GennGreymane]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ntent=20170906

The results are in for the biological tests of Salvador Dalí and the Spanish woman who claimed to be his daughter — and they show that the surrealist painter was not her father, according to the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.

Earlier this summer a judge in Madrid ordered that Dalí be exhumed and a DNA test be performed on his bones, after María Pilar Abel Martínez filed a paternity suit claiming her mother had had a secret affair with the artist while working as a maid in the 1950s.

But on Wednesday, the foundation said in a statement that the results showed "the exclusion of Salvador Dalí as the biological father of María Pilar Abel Martínez."

If paternity had been confirmed, Abel would have been entitled to up to a quarter of his estate, reports The Associated Press.

Abel, born in 1956, has been making claims about Dalí being her father since at least 2007.

NPR's Lauren Frayer said Abel is "working as a tarot card reader — and claims to resemble Dalí: 'The only thing missing is the mustache,' she says," as The Two-Way reported in June.

The foundation, which manages Dalí's estate, said the court's finding came as no surprise, "since at no time has there been any evidence of the veracity of an alleged paternity."

Contacted by the Spanish newspaper El País, Abel said neither she nor her lawyer had been given the results yet. "I do not hide, whatever the result: positive, negative or invalid, I will give a press conference with everyone to explain it."

In life the eccentric Dalí never failed to shock, and that was the case when his body was pulled from its tomb in July. After nearly 30 years, Dalí's mustache remained perfectly intact. It was "a miracle," Narcís Bardalet, the forensic doctor who embalmed Dalí in 1989 and attended the exhumation, said, as The Two-Way reported.

The foundation says Dalí's remains will be returned shortly to his resting place at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain.

In its statement, the foundation adds that it "is pleased that this report puts an end to an absurd and artificial controversy."

[Xandrigity]

Well that settles that

[Travis B]

working as a tarot card reader

A tarot card reader turns out to be a fraud, I never thought I'd see the day.

[draynay]

I am also not Salvador Dali's daughter.

[Video Games]

I might be Salvador Dali's daughter since I don't know my dad.

[Theinquisition]

IDK why but i have a morbid fascination with seeing exhumed bodies.

[draynay]

I might be Salvador Dali's daughter since I don't know my dad.

Better check while he's dug up.

[Video Games]

Better check while he's dug up.

You got it, dude.

[draynay]

You got it, dude.

I'm pulling for you, cha-ching!

[yetgdhfgh]

So no money for her!

Oh well i guess that BS story that her mother prolly told her wasnt true.

[Deleted]

Might want to check if Chelsea is Webb Hubbells daughter too..

[yetgdhfgh]

Also it says she is a tarot card reader well i guess she shouldve seen this coming LOL

[Video Games]

I'm pulling for you, cha-ching!

I need some money because I just spent a lot trying to prep for ultra sun. Bleh