Famous posthumous paternity tests

The body of the Spanish surrealist painter has been exhumed 27 years after he died in 1989, to determine if he is the father of Pilar Abel. Dali never had any children with his wife Gala (left). Although these posthumous events echo the artist's eccentric life, Dali is not the only celebrity to undergo a post-mortem paternity test.

The godfather of Soul, who died in 2006, had many children: possibly 13. He's acknowledged nine of them. In 2015, Tomi Rae Hynie was recognized as James Brown's last wife - their 2001 marriage was long considered invalid. Posthumous DNA testing was done to determine that her son was also her legendary husband's. At least two other people were proven to be his children afterwards, too.

French-Italian actor-singer Yves Montand, pictured here with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he had an affair, died in 1991. During his lifetime, he refused to submit himself to a paternity test claimed by actress Anne Drossart, for her daughter Aurore. His body was finally exhumed in 1998 for posthumous DNA testing. The tests proved he was not the father of Aurore Drossart.

The Argentine Formula One legend was thought to be childless when he died in 1995. His body was exhumed in 2015, 20 years after his death: Oscar Cacho Espinosa, who had already been acknowledged as the son of Fangio in 2000, along with another man, Ruben Vazquez, were both officially confirmed to be the racing car driver's progeny.

The remains of the ex-president of Argentina, who died in 1974, were dug up in 2006 and exhumed for a paternity test. Martha Holgado, then 72, claimed to be the secret love child of the iconic leader. However, that didn't turn out to be the case.

After the chess grandmaster's death in 2008, a Filipino woman with whom he had had an affair claimed that her daughter, Jinky Young, was also his. DNA samples from an exhumation in 2010 proved that was not the case.