A DNA test confirmed that Maria Pilar Abel, a Spanish psychic and tarot card reader, is not the daughter of Salvador Dalí, despite her claims to the contrary. Abel managed to convince a Spanish judge to allow the July 2017 exhumation of the famous Surrealist painter’s remains. She claimed that her mother, who had worked as a maid for Dalí and his wife/muse Gala in the 1950s, had an affair with him.
On September 6, 2017, the Dalí Foundation issued a statement that read, in part: