diff --git a/apis/openstack-swift/src/main/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStore.java b/apis/openstack-swift/src/main/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStore.java
index 692401c404..ac326fffbf 100644
--- a/apis/openstack-swift/src/main/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStore.java
+++ b/apis/openstack-swift/src/main/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStore.java
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStore implements BlobStore {
 
    @Override
    public void removeBlob(String container, String name) {
-      api.getObjectApi(regionId, container).delete(name);
+      // use SLO API to delete blob regardless of whether its a single- or multi-part object
+      api.getStaticLargeObjectApi(regionId, container).delete(name);
    }
 
    @Override
diff --git a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
index cdcdec6411..75eb17a6cc 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
@@ -943,6 +943,10 @@ public class BaseBlobIntegrationTest extends BaseBlobStoreIntegrationTest {
          assertThat(ByteStreams2.toByteArrayAndClose(newBlob.getPayload().openStream())).isEqualTo(byteSource.read());
          checkContentMetadata(newBlob);
          checkUserMetadata(newBlob.getMetadata().getUserMetadata(), blob.getMetadata().getUserMetadata());
+
+         // ensure that deleting multi-part manifest deletes any user-visible parts
+         blobStore.removeBlob(container, name);
+         assertThat(blobStore.list(container)).isEmpty();
       } finally {
          returnContainer(container);
       }