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Clinton accused of fathering secret love child

David Cox In New York

BILL Clinton, the former US president, was at the centre of more embarrassing accusations about his infidelity last night, when he was accused of fathering a secret love-child.

Mr Clinton is being asked to take a DNA test to determine if he is the father of an alleged former lover’s child - and it could be the final straw for his troubled marriage.

If he refuses to submit to the test voluntarily, he will be taken to court and forced to provide DNA samples in what would be yet another highly embarrassing incident for him and his wife, Hillary, a New York senator, who has stood by her husband through repeated affairs.

The paternity battle began when Paul Pearson, a retired lawyer, from Dallas, Texas, demanded to know if the famously unfaithful former president is the real father of his son, Anthony, 20.

Paul Pearson’s ex-wife, Dolly Kyle Browning, a friend of Mr Clinton since childhood, admitted to a 17-year affair with the former president prior to giving birth to Anthony in 1981.

The couple were married from 1975 to 1985, but Mr Pearson, 55, said that, during their relationship, they were infrequently intimate.

He told the US tabloid National Enquirer: "It’s time for Bill Clinton to face the music, he needs to settle this issue for good, and the only way is through a DNA test. It’s the right and decent thing to do."

He added: "I knew that Bill Clinton and my wife were involved before we were married because she would boast about it," said Mr Pearson. "But she promised me that their relationship was over - and like a fool, I believed her.

"By the time our son was born, everyone was telling me she was cheating, including Dolly’s own daughters. Almost everyone I knew was trying to convince me that she and Bill were having an affair.

"Once it finally sank in that she was cheating with Bill before Anthony was born, of course I questioned whether he was my son. Who wouldn’t?"

It is not the first time Mr Clinton has faced a paternity suit. In 1999, a prostitute from Arkansas claimed that Clinton fathered her son, then 13, but tests proved negative.

Mr Pearson’s determination to set the record straight is causing shockwaves in the Clinton marriage, insiders say.

One source said: "He’s already sworn to her that Anthony Pearson is not his child, and, so far, she [Hillary] has believed him.

"When she gets the news of the DNA demand, she will be furious. It will be the final scandal as far as she is concerned."

Anthony Pearson could end up with about a third of the former president’s estimated $30 million fortune if his son does turn out to be a Clinton.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2002

Answers

I hope the 'kid' can stand the infamy, if clinton is proved to be his father. The money would help.

Sounds like another chapter for that book he is supposed to write.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2002

I've got to quit clicking on these Clinton articles. That this man is still in the public eye tells me how much our society enjoys bread and circuses. Guess I do too because I clicked on this article. ):

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2002

I think it's more that we're hoping there'll be enough crap in the new revelation that Clinton will finally get what's due to him. And they called REAGAN the Teflon president!!! It was the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock that first called him Slick Willie. They told everyone what a horrible family this was but nobody listened.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2002

most still aren't.

And what's this 'love' child crap. I'm sure there was no love involved. well, at least not the kind that phrase normally refers to.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2002