60-year-old Maria do Socorro Azevedo demands a DNA test to prove that she is Pelé’s daughter.
Brazilian football legend who died in December 2022 Pele may be dug out of his grave, the British media reported, for example Sky News and Daily Mail and Portuguese Record.
A 60-year-old requires digging up Maria do Socorro Azevedo, who claims to be Pelé’s daughter. Family relationship would be proven with a DNA test.
Pelé, who died at the age of 82, has seven children, but Azevedo claims to be the eighth. He has been trying to find out his father’s identity for five years.
In his will, Pelé admitted, that she might be having an eighth child, and she reportedly agreed to a DNA test to find out. However, Pelé died before completing the test.
Two of Pelé’s children previously agreed to a DNA test with Azevedo, the results of which are conflicting. According to the first test analyzed, Azevedo is not related to Pelé’s descendants, but based on the second test, now done in the laboratory, the relationship is very likely.
According to Azevedo’s lawyer, they have no other option to resolve the situation than to demand that Pelé’s body be exhumed for a DNA test.
Azevedo said at the weekend that his mother never told Pelé that she became pregnant. Azevedo wanted Pelé to take a paternity test already in 2019, but the former superstar’s health and the corona pandemic prevented it.
A lawyer representing Pelé’s family said Azevedo’s request is “absurd and unlikely”.
– The tests already said that he is not our sister, Pelé’s son Edinho said.
The family is trying to avoid legal action against Azevedo and prevent the exhumation of the body.
Pelé bequeathed a third of his property to his widow Marcia Cibele to Aoki. The seven children received two-thirds and the grandchildren ten percent. The value of Pelé’s property is estimated at 90 million euros.
The relationship could give Azevedo a share of the inheritance. However, he has emphasized that he is not interested in money.
The family relationships of Pelé, who has been married three times, have been discussed in the media before. The Brassi icon denied for a long time that he died in 2006 Sandra Reginan father, until your name this as one of his seven children in his will.
Pelé is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. He won the World Cup with Brazil in 1970, 1962 and 1958.