Football icon Pele’s useless physique may very well be dug up after girl’s ‘love little one’ claims
A lady claiming to be soccer legend Pele’s secret daughter has demanded the exhumation of his physique.
Maria do Socorro Azevedo, 60, instructed a lawyer to make the transfer almost 5 years after first launching a paternity lawsuit. Pele, who died aged 82 on December 29 2022 in a Sao Paulo hospital after having a tumour faraway from his colon, recognised the likelihood he might have one other little one in his will.
He married 3 times and formally has seven youngsters, though one is a stepdaughter. Two of his youngsters, Edinho Nascimento and Flavia Christina, agreed to DNA assessments after the studying of their father’s will.
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Reports in Brazil, quoting Maria do Socorro Azevedo’s lawyer Marcos Fernando dos Santos Sousa, mentioned the preliminary assessments they’d executed got here again unfavourable however his shopper’s DNA take a look at had come again with “high possibilities” of a blood hyperlink. Mr dos Santos Sousa mentioned they now had “no option” however to request the exhumation of Pele’s physique to “resolve the situation.”
The soccer star is alleged to have agreed to a DNA take a look at however died earlier than it might happen. Maria do Socorro Azevedo spoke publicly about her claims she is Pele’s daughter on a Brazilian TV programme on Sunday and insisted she was not fascinated about his cash. She mentioned her late mom had by no means informed the previous Brazil and Santos ahead she was pregnant with their little one after a fling in Sao Luis within the Brazilian state of Maranhao.
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Maria, who hails from the state of Piaui in north-east Brazil, mentioned she had first determined to do a DNA take a look at in 2019 when she was working as a maid in Sao Paulo. Pele left 30% of his property to his widow, third spouse Marica Aoki, with one other 60% to be cut up between his youngsters and 10% to 2 grandchildren.
His internet value on the time of his dying has been put at round £78million. If Maria do Socorro Azevedo finally ends up being recognised as his eighth little one, she would be capable of declare her share of the property awarded to her siblings. A lawyer appearing for Pele’s household, Augusto Miglioli, mentioned his household would contest any exhumation demand on the idea that the DNA assessments already carried out had proven Maria was not the footballer’s daughter.
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Pele, the one participant to win the World Cup 3 times, was laid to relaxation in January final yr in a mausoleum he purchased 19 years earlier contained in the Memorial Ecumenical Cemetery. It is a high-rise constructing in Santos, the Brazilian port metropolis the place ‘The King’ performed most of his profession, that holds the Guinness world document because the tallest cemetery on this planet.
