BUENOS AIRES — The body of late football great Diego Maradona “must be conserved” in case his DNA is needed in a paternity case, an Argentine court ruled on Wednesday.
Maradona died of a heart attack last month and was buried on Nov. 26 in a cemetery just outside Buenos Aires.
While Maradona’s lawyer had previously told Reuters that DNA samples already exist, the court said the former Boca Juniors and Napoli player’s body must not be cremated at some later date.
Five recognized children and six with filiation requests are part of a complex inheritance process in Argentina.
One of the six, Magal Gil, 25, says she found out two years ago that the soccer icon was her biolo…
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