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Claims that Bill Clinton fathered a love child with a woman who reportedly used to work as a prostitute have resurfaced nearly a month before Americans head to the polls to choose between the former president's wife and Donald Trump .

Danney Williams, who insists Clinton is his father even though he doesn't have any conclusive proof, has launched an online campaign to pressure the 42nd president to take a DNA test.

The 30-year-old's claims became a talking point in the presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Trump today after they were reported again by conservative media.

His mother, Bobbie Ann Williams, reportedly claims she began a sexual relationship Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1984 while he was the state's governor and she was a 24-year-old prostitute.

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In exchange for a fee her claims were originally published by a tabloid magazine, Globe, in 1992 while Clinton was running for president against George H.W. Bush.

Clinton didn't submit to a paternity test and her claims were never proven as the story was largely ignored by the press.

She claimed Clinton was the father because her son's skin tone is light and the then-governor was her only white client at the time.

Bobbie Ann told Globe: "When I told him that he was the father of my baby, he just laughed.

"He rubbed my big belly and said, 'Girl, that can’t be my baby.' But I knew it was. I just had this kind of woman’s feeling that this was his child."

In 1999 it was reported a DNA test found that Clinton was not Danney's father.

The news about the DNA test was first reported by conservative news website the Drudge Report, which carried a report on Danney's claims and social media campaign today.

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The story from 1999 claimed Star magazine conducted the test using the analysis of Clinton's DNA from the Kenneth Star impeachment report and samples from both Danney and his mother.

There have since been claims the test was flawed or didn't even take place.

Danney, who lists his surname as Williams-Clinton on Facebook, wrote in a recent post: "My name is Danney Lee Williams, I'm the son of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton.

"All I want to do is shake my father's hand. I have requested a DNA test."