"For several years before he died in 1991, Yves Montand, was the object of a paternity suit brought by a girl, Aurore Drossart, who claimed she was his daughter. The singer always refused to give a blood test and that was the main reason why three years after he died a court in Paris ruled in her favour. But the decision was never accepted by the rest of Yves Montand's family, a son and an adopted daughter. They took the case to the appeal court and now after consulting experts in human biology, it has ruled that the only way to be certain of the truth is to take a DNA test. The court has therefore ordered that the body of the singer which lies in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris should be exhumed and his genetic imprint compared with Aurore Drossart. When Yves Montant died he left a grieving public and an immense fortune. How finally that's divided up wont be decided until this rather grizzly operation takes place sometime in the coming months."