Snopes needs your help! Learn more. Bill Clinton fathered an illegitimate, mixed-race son named Danney Williams with an Arkansas prostitute in On 3 October , five weeks before the U. She says Clinton went out for a run one day in Little Rock, when he jogged by her housing project and introduced himself to her.
She was 24 years old at the time. After that, Bobbie says that she and Clinton regularly had sex, sometimes alone, sometimes with other female partners. Williams is African American. But no showdown occurred. That was not the last the world would hear of the story, however. In fairness, there were a couple of issues with the reliability of the original paternity test. One was its origin: the tabloids. The Starr report, for unexplained reasons, gives data only for the less specific of the two tests.
In fact, this test is imprecise enough that it would probably not be persuasive to a judge. This would be suggestive but not conclusive. The legal threshold is At best the genetic fingerprint contained in the Starr report can only yield a paternity index of We have a plethora of head shots purporting to show a family resemblance between Clinton and Williams.
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