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Salvador Dalí's Body Ordered Exhumed In Paternity Suit

"The only thing missing is the mustache," says the woman who claims to be his daughter about her resemblance to the Spanish surrealist painter.
A Spanish judge has ordered that the body of Salvador Dalí be exhumed after a 61-year-old woman claimed the celebrated surrealist is her father.

In a surreal turn, a judge in Madrid ordered that Salvador Dalí's body — interred for nearly three decades — be exhumed after a 61-year-old Spanish woman claimed the renowned painter was her father.

María Pilarthe BBC.

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