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Maria Pilar Abel Martinez has been trying for ten years to prove that she is the artist's biological daughter. This summer the story reached its climax. The court ordered the exhumation of the remains and a DNA test. The results were negative.

Who is Pilar Abel

According to the newspaper El Pais, Maria Pilar Abel Martinez is a 61-year-old clairvoyant from Girona, Spain. For more than eight years she acted as a fortune teller in a program on local television. The town of Girona is just an hour's drive from Figueres, where Salvador Dali was born and raised.

According to Abel Martinez, she first heard that Dali was her father from her grandmother. One day she told her: “I know that you are not the daughter of my son and that you are the daughter of a great artist, but I love you just as much.” In addition, Abel claimed that when her grandmother scolded her, she often said: “You are strange, just like your father.”

In the 50s, according to Abel, her mother worked as a maid in Port Lligat. Nearby, the Dali family had a house, which later became the artist’s museum. Abel claims that Antonia worked for Dali’s friends, whom the artist often visited.

Pilar Abel was born on February 1, 1956. Even before this, the mother left the village and married another man. However, according to Abel, she was born precisely after secret relationship the artist and her mother Antonia in 1955.

At that time, Salvador Dali had already been living in a civil marriage with his future wife Gala (nee Elena Dyakonova) for two decades. Their official wedding took place only in 1958. The couple had no children.

Exchange of claims

Salvador Dalí died in Figueres in 1989 at the age of 84. The artist bequeathed to bury himself so that people could walk on his grave. That is why Dali’s remains were walled up under the floor of his theater-museum in Figueres.

However, the artist left no biological samples on which to conduct analysis. In 2007, Pilar already tried to conduct a DNA study to establish paternity. Then the material for the examination was the remains of skin and hair that were preserved in Dali’s plaster death mask.

This mask was provided by Salvador Dali's friend and biographer Robert Descharnes. But, as Abel states, she never received these tests, because their transfer was blocked by the Dali Foundation, which controls and manages the master’s entire inheritance.

However, back in 2008, in an interview with the Spanish agency EFE, Desharnes' son Nicolas said that the doctor who conducted the paternity test told him that the test result was negative.

In 2015, Abel filed a lawsuit against the Spanish Ministry of Finance and the Gala and Salvador Dali Foundation. On June 26, 2017, a Madrid court ordered the exhumation of the artist's body.

And again a fiasco

If the test results were positive, Pilar Abel could claim to bear the surname of the great painter. Also, a woman could claim a quarter of Dali’s inheritance and copyrights to his works.

During his life, the artist, who is considered one of the most famous representatives surrealism, created over a hundred works. The most expensive on this moment his painting is a portrait of Paul Eluard. This work was sold at Sotheby's for $22 million in 2011.

On July 20, Dali's remains were exhumed. For analysis, samples of hair, nails, teeth were taken, and two long bones were also extracted. However, a DNA test showed that Pilar Abel is not the painter’s daughter. The woman herself intends to challenge this decision. She noted that she “doesn’t trust the storage network” for DNA samples.

At the same time, at a meeting on September 18, the Madrid court confirmed the results of the genetic examination. And the Spanish prosecutor's office petitioned to recover legal costs from Pilar Abel. The prosecution stated that the woman’s behavior was “capricious and unreasonable,” as well as the doubts she expressed to the Institute of Toxicology about the error of the DNA test results.

The prosecutor's office will consider the request next week. The verdict will be announced then.

Timur Fekhretdinov

The exhumation of the body of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who rested peacefully for 28 years under a huge slab in the room of the Theater-Museum in Figueres, Spain (Catalonia), took place on Thursday evening, DNA samples were sent for examination, museum director Montse Aguer told RIA Novosti.

It was necessary to lift a huge slab weighing 1.5 tons, remove the coffin, exhume Dali’s body and take DNA due to a court decision made at the end of June by a Madrid court. The judge granted the claim of the “soothsayer” Pilar Abel Martinez, who claims that Dali is her blood father. Attempts to challenge or at least delay the court decision made by the mayor's office of Figueres and the management of the museum were unsuccessful.

“Everything went according to plan. The samples taken were sent for examination,” the director of the museum told a RIA Novosti correspondent.

Dozens of journalists gathered near the building of the theater-museum, created according to Dali’s design. The entrance was guarded by several members of the Catalan police Mossos d'Esquadra. At about one o'clock in the morning local time, forensic experts left the building, loaded a suitcase with DNA samples taken from bones and teeth, equipment into the car and left. The analysis will be carried out by specialists from the Madrid Institute of Toxicology.

Next to the journalists, a few tourists could be seen watching what was happening in surprise. “It all looks strange. Some kind of surrealism. Dali is probably laughing,” says David, who came to Figueres from Pamplona for a few days to see the city. In honor of this event, David decided to curl his mustache up to resemble Dali. Under bell ringing, resounding over the night Figueres, the whole action actually looked like some kind of practical joke.

The exhumation was carried out with a minimum number of people - only representatives of the court, museum and forensic experts were present. Everyone was taken away at the entrance Cell phones- so that no one takes pictures. Fearing that they would want to film what was happening from above from a drone, the glass dome was covered.

As it turned out, the coffin was preserved in very good condition. good condition, it opened exactly at 22.20 local time. Forensic experts reported that the process took much less time than originally expected. The mayor's office, the museum's management and representatives of the High Court of Catalonia thought that they would have to spend the whole night in the building.

As the mayor of the city of Figueres, Marta Felip, told reporters, the body was in good condition. The mayor admitted that she was impressed by what was happening. "It's impressive because it's going back in time and you're reliving moments from the past," she told reporters. The mayor refused to answer the question about the condition of the famous mustache Dali.

Tourist Ana believes that the woman who calls herself Dali’s daughter and has created a stir all over the world is “crazy.” “They created a theater for the whole world,” she laughs.

The first scandal surrounding this woman broke out several years ago in connection with the lawsuit that she filed in 2005 against journalist and writer Javier Cercas, author of one of the most famous books of modern times. spanish literature"Soldiers of Salamis" She believes that she became the prototype of the book’s heroine, Conchi, and that the writer damaged her honor and dignity, since the heroine is “ignorant, stupid, hypocritical, superficial.” Pilar demanded compensation in the amount of 700 thousand euros. In 2009, the court finally refused to satisfy this claim, since Javier Cercas did not even know the “seer.”

Abel claims that her mother Antonia Martínez de Haro had an affair with the artist in the mid-1950s while working at his friends' house in Cadaqués. At this time, Dali lived there with his wife and muse Gala. Having become pregnant at 25, Antonia moved to Castellon de Empurias and married a 29-year-old man named Juan. He became the official father of Abel.

According to the soothsayer, Dali knew about the birth of his daughter. One day, she said, Dali saw António walking down the street with a baby stroller and asked: “Is this my daughter Pilar?” She first heard that she was the illegitimate daughter of an artist from her grandmother, the mother of her official father. “I know that you are not my son’s daughter, you are from a great artist, but I still love you,” the grandmother said, adding that she is “as strange as her father (referring to Dali),” the fortune teller claims.

Abel has already passed her DNA tests. All that remains is to get tests on her 87-year-old mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's, and wait for the examination of Madrid specialists.

The final decision on whether Abel can officially consider Dali his father will be made by the court. The date has already been set - September 18. The soothsayer promised: if the decision is in her favor, she will take the name Dali.

The issue of inheritance in this case will become the subject of a separate trial. By law, she could claim a quarter of the surrealist’s entire legacy, including copyrights and paintings. In 1989, Dali's legacy was estimated at $136 million, since then the amount has increased several times. According to some estimates, Abel, who is in such a difficult financial situation that she does not even have the money to pay a lawyer, could claim $300 million. The Spanish state owns most of the inheritance of Dali, who, according to current official data, had no children. These are hundreds of paintings, as well as the property of the artist in Catalonia.

If the court decision is not in favor of the plaintiff, she will have to pay for all the work that was carried out in the museum. But apparently the soothsayer is determined and does not intend to give up completely. "I'm not considering any other scenario," she said on the eve of the exhumation. Her lawyer, Enrique Blanques, said they would "continue to try if the tests are not carried out with due guarantee."

FIGUERES (Spain), July 21 - RIA Novosti, Elena Shesternina. In the Salvador Dali Theater and Museum in the Catalan city of Figueres, nothing any longer reminds of the stormy night events that took place here the day before. Most tourists who enter the museum building do not even suspect that half a day ago experts exhumed the body of the great surrealist, who unexpectedly discovered an “illegitimate daughter”, Pilar Abel Martinez.

In June, a Madrid court granted the request of this woman, who makes a living by predicting the future and solving problems by removing damage, to exhume the body of Salvador Dali for DNA tests. Despite attempts by the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation and the mayor's office of Figueres to cancel or at least delay the exhumation, it was carried out.

At 09.00 on Friday - strictly according to schedule - the museum was opened to visitors. Tourists calmly walk on the slab, under which the master’s body rests at a depth of two meters - exactly as Dali himself bequeathed - “so that people could walk on his grave.” The glass dome over the grave, contrary to plans, was not closed during the exhumation. And so that no one had plans to remove the exhumation procedure from a drone through glass - which was what the museum feared - two tents were put up for the duration of the work - one over the grave, the second over the place where the specialists were working. The tents were removed for the opening of the museum.

A group of French tourists approaches the building of the house-museum. “Yes, I heard that the body was exhumed today and I find this unacceptable. I am a big fan of Dali, I came here for the second time. Disturbing the remains of the deceased and also because of some strange woman who has no evidence that Dali father? Is that possible?" Isabel is indignant.

The mayor of the city of Figueres, Marta Felip, in an interview with RIA Novosti, admitted that all this fuss about the exhumation local residents was received with great pain. “We could never in our lives think about such a situation. The exhumation of the deceased is something very intimate, but here honor, memory and respect were literally invaded. This could have been avoided. There were other ways to solve the problem of “paternity.” But it’s been three weeks now ago we understood that exhumation was inevitable,” the mayor said.

However, the mayor does not lose optimism and hopes that thanks to this situation everything more people people from all over the world will find out exactly where Dali is buried and come to Figueres. “What happened, happened. This is the court’s decision. We complied with it. Every cloud has a silver lining. We have a chance to remind everyone once again where Dali’s grave is and where his museum is,” said Marta Felip.

The museum is also unhappy with the exhumation. The management tried to challenge the decision of the Madrid court, but they did not have time to consider the claim, and the Fund had to come to terms. “This should not have happened. For each of us who works at the museum, this is a personal tragedy,” says a museum employee who did not want to give her name.

The “seer’s” lawyer Enrique Blanques, in a conversation with a RIA Novosti correspondent, suggested that the results of DNA tests (and they will be carried out at the Institute of Toxicology in Madrid) will become known in two weeks. The museum's management is more cautious, believing that since August is a holiday period in Spain, there is no need to expect results before September.

If the results of the analysis do not confirm that Pilar Abel is Dali's daughter, the story will not end there. The lawyer is going to question the reliability and thoroughness of the examination. Blanques assured that “if the specialists manage to prove that there were no errors in the procedure, then the litigation will be terminated.”

Meanwhile, the museum's management said that in the event of a negative test result, "it will take appropriate action to bring to justice those who caused significant damage and material costs for the exhumation," the Dalí Foundation said in a statement. They are confident that “there is no indication that the plaintiff’s claims have any basis.” “The only thing she presented was a notarized statement from one lady, who says that she is a friend of her mother, and who claims that she allegedly told her that the father of her daughter was Dali,” the head of the Gala Foundation said at a press conference. Salvador Dali" Juan Manuel Sevillano.

If experts establish that Dali really biological father Pilar Abel, then Spain will face new trials. By law, a direct heir could claim 25% of the artist’s fortune, who had no legitimate children. About what amount exactly? we're talking about, no one can say for sure now. In 1989, Dali's legacy was estimated at $136 million, since then the amount has increased several times. According to some estimates, Abel could claim 300 million. Most of Dali's inheritance belongs to the Spanish state - hundreds of paintings, as well as the artist's property in Catalonia. The Dali Foundation says that if the inheritance trial takes place, he will not participate in it. “Pilar Abel could theoretically claim 25% of the inheritance, but this would be a claim not against the Foundation, but against the Spanish state. The Foundation will not be involved in this process,” said Foundation lawyer Albert Segura.

The seer's lawyer, Enrique Blanques, claims that Pilar Abel is not interested in money at all, but in establishing the truth. “No, she’s not doing this for money. She gives interviews for free. Her mother told her that she was Dali’s daughter when Abel was little,” the lawyer recalled. However, according to another version, which was previously repeatedly voiced by the “seer,” another woman, her paternal grandmother, was the first to tell her about her “real father.” “I know that you are not my son’s daughter, you are from a great artist, but I still love you,” said the grandmother, adding that she is “as strange as her father (meaning Dali - ed.)” states the "soothsayer".

The “seer” has already passed her DNA tests. Next up are tests for her mother, 87-year-old Antonia Martinez de Haro, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

It was previously reported that during the exhumation, “samples of two large bones, hair and nails” of the artist were taken. It was noted that his body was well preserved thanks to embalming. “That’s why the famous mustache retained its shape,” “it was a very emotional moment,” said Luis Peñuelas, general director of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation.

The trial, which will finally decide whether Dali was the father of Pilar Abel, will take place on September 18.

Soon there will be an end to the high-profile story that has been exciting Spain for several years - whether the great surrealist Salvodor Dali has an heir, or rather an heiress. In Figueres, in the house-museum of the eccentric artist, his remains were exhumed in order to take DNA samples, the court ruled.

For many years it was believed that Dali had no descendants, but now a woman was found who claims that she is his illegitimate daughter. While waiting for the results, the local press calculated what kind of inheritance this lady could count on if everything was confirmed.

The forensic procedure takes place in an absolutely surreal spirit. The remains of Salvador Dali are exhumed in front of a huge press gathering. But not a single shot will be taken inside the museum. Forbidden. Even the glass dome was covered with fabric to prevent the body from being removed by drones. Journalists and tourists chatter: “I wonder how his famous mustache is?” Completely surreal.

“Let's not discuss such details. As the mayor of the city, I was present at the procedure. I can only say that the remains of Salvador Dali are in satisfactory condition,” said the mayor of Figueres, Marta Felip.

The great artist seemed to have foreseen: last sleep, caused by the flight of a bumblebee around a pomegranate, will sooner or later be disturbed. He bequeathed not to bury his body. Dali was buried in the building of his personal theater-museum under a multi-ton steel slab. Tonight she was moved for Pilar Abel Martinez.

“I have a chance to learn the main thing about myself, to essentially understand who I am. It is wonderful! This is the best thing that could have happened to me and my mother. There are no words!" - she says.

Pilar Abel Martinez insists: she is the illegitimate daughter of Salvador Dali. His mother worked as a maid in the house where the artist lived, and everything started to happen: courts, three DNA examinations, based on particles taken from death mask artist. Fiasco... Something external resemblance, of course, you can find it. But Dali never mentioned a possible daughter. Pilar Abel Martinez herself is better known as a soothsayer. Love spell, lapel, vow of celibacy. Either she's a swindler, or she's just like her father - extravagant.

“I want everyone to know I feel calm and positive. Yes, I have peace in my soul. For eleven years I searched for the truth,” says Pilar Abel Martinez.

The man who embalmed Salvador Dali's body was present at the exhumation today. He fears the formaldehyde he used 28 years ago may have damaged his DNA.

“Apparently, experts will work with material from the artist’s large bones and teeth. All this will be taken for research in Madrid, to the Institute of Toxicology,” explains Narcisse Bardalet.

The result of the DNA test will be announced at the court hearing on September 18. If it is confirmed that Salvador Dali was indeed the father of Pilar Abel Martinez, the woman will be able to claim a quarter of the artist’s inheritance - 300 million euros.