Donna Presley Early And Buddy Scams Elvis Fans
UPDATE~08/08/04
This was emailed to me: It was heard last night that Donna and Buddy will appear at Patsy Andersen's "tribute" meeting," staged by Mike Keating, to be held at an "undisclosed location" in Memphis at the same time as the club presidents' luncheon.
I have to scout out now trying to locate the meeting. Was told it is "undisclosed" at Buddy and Donna's request to dodge paper servers.
Will let you know what, and if, I find out something more
The following letter was emailed to me by Diana:
Dear Honest Citizens:
This concerns Buddy & Donna (Presley) Early. She is a cousin of Elvis. They go around the world cheating people in Elvis' name. They cheated me out of $5,000 for work I did two years ago.
They are allegedly returning to Memphis soon. There are many arrest warrants active for them, as well as civil warrants. Please contact the authorities if they are seen. They are known to go by various aliases and are very slippery. Hold your wallet tightly when around them!
~~~~~~~End Of Update~~~~~~~
This story is Posted Here entitled "A Very Troubling Story" and since being posted, there's been more developing news...the disturbing news that Donna Presley Early and Buddy are still scamming Elvis fans!!
An email was received from Diana, (I won't use last names here) and she read "A Very Troubling Story" from Sharon's Elvis Pages, and here, in part, is the email from Diana:
Thank you for posting Lucy's story on your website - "A Very Troubling Story."
I had no idea that you had posted it, but at the time, Buddy Early was threatening and intimidating Lucy and we didn't want to use her name, but did want, at least, a few people to know, in the event something happened to silence her. {This Must be Serious, people!!!} Tony (Yes, OUR Tony from the Elvis NG!) is one of the few people I can count on and I'm so glad he knew you.
Lucy is visiting for the summer and won't have access to a computer to see any of it until she returns home at the end of the summer.
Another victim, Julie, a newer victim than even Lucy, has just heard of yet another victim, but she's sworn to secrecy.
Andy, Julie's husband, posted on the FECC board a few days ago at www.elvis-collectors.com. They've received phone threats and a threat to break Julie's legs!! This was said by phone from a male with an American accent.
Donna Presley (she certainly DOES NOT deserve to be using the Presley name!!) Early and husband, Buddy, may not be well known to all, so
here is, for your conveience, a Picture of Donna and Buddy
You can find more pictures of Donna and Buddy at Donna's Website which includes photos of themselves with celebrities in the section titled "Star Friends."
These "scam artists" are beginning to get the attention they deserve, but we've got to continue to do more. There are very active threads right now on, at least, two messageboards...here's one you can go to: Click on Messageboard at Top Left, then "All Elvis" (2nd item down), then look for thread that says Donna Early Sold Fake TCB to British Fan for $5,000!!! On page 3 of that thread, the British gentlemen tells how they have received phone calls from an American male voice (maybe Buddy???....but he doesn't want to say more publically, maybe for legal reasons????) in the middle of the night, threatening to break his wife, Julie's legs!!!!! {Can you BELIEVE these people???} And another friend received DEATH THREATS!!! He reported it to BT and the police.
There are surely More Victims out there. The most active messageboard is all about the Early scams. FINALLY!!! Word is beginning to circulate, but it has far from reached everyone. I'm just going to continue to do my small part in this and continue to update as I receive information on any scams. But I'm only ONE person, so I'm asking for help from my friends and everyone and anyone that visits my website, or maybe you just stumbled on this...but now you are armed with this information too, so we cannot just "sit on it" and do nothing. I'm asking Everyone who reads this...if you love Elvis, or if you just love his music, or maybe you're not even a fan, but you are a human being and you know right from wrong...all I'm asking you to do is to pass this on to ONE OTHER PERSON. If we all do that, we'll have these "scam artists" running scared because they'll have NO ONE LEFT to scam!! Knowledge is Power!!
So, PLEASE HELP ME spread the word...let's not allow someone with the "Presley" name to discredit the name any longer!!! She does not DESERVE to even use that name!!! How DARE she!!
I will be adding any additional info as I receive it so I can share it with others.
Again, A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO DIANA for sharing this info with me!!
If you haven't read "A Very Troubling Story," please take the time to do so...it's a long story, but well worth the time. Go HERE to read the entire disturbing story.
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