DNA tests show Spanish woman not Dali's daughter

A Spanish woman claimed to be the biological daughter of Spain's Salvador Dali, but a DNA test apparently shows they are not related.

Pilar Abel (L) claimed she was Salvador Dali's daughter. Source: AAP

DNA tests on the exhumed body of Salvador Dali have proved that the Spanish woman who brought a legal case is not the surrealist artist's daughter.

According to a statement released on Wednesday by Dali's foundation the court supervising the tests had informed its lawyers that the woman, Maria Pilar Abel, was not Dali's biological daughter.

A spokesman for the court declined to confirm the results of the DNA tests.