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The attacks against Elvis and Presley family members are a continuing annoyance. While
The Kin of Rock and Roll is not aware and able
to defend in all instances, we do our best to set straight those we do come across, and those which are sent to us by family members and/or fans.

Highlights the scam artists who have spent
years trying to infiltrate the family lines of Elvis Presley, while at the same time duping Elvis' fans by creating schemes and lies that have not only disrupted the Elvis World but have purposely harmed Elvis' fans and, especially, family members and extended family of Elvis. After careful investigation our list of those to be publicly discredited follows.

Elizabeth Alice Tiffin

Dr. Hinton's "Jesse"
is not Elvis Presley

ELIZA A. PRESLEY NOT PRESLEY KIN

For years people have tried to claim kinship to Elvis Presley. Most came in the form of illegitimate children. In the oddest form came one person who claimed she was the daughter of Vernon Presley and, therefore, Elvis Presley's half sister.

Elizabeth Alice Tiffin was born to a woman name Florence Sharpe (Clark) who claims the father of her natural-born daughter was not Vernon OR Elvis Presley. Tiffin was adopted into a family in Texas, and for some reason, after beginning a search for her family roots, stumbled upon the idea that Graceland® was her true home. This assumption landed the divorced mother of four in Memphis, TN, where she began a 12-year journey visiting family members for the purpose of collecting their DNA. Family members were not happy to help this unknown and very over-bearing woman stake a claim that may not rightfully have belonged to her. But Tiffin was determined. When she started out, she told family members that she was a relative of Gladys Presley. When that didn't prove, she trained her sights on proving she was the illegitimate daughter of Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley. With DNA samples provided by a Presley cousin, Donna Pritchett Early, Elzabeth, now Eliza A. Presley, quickly began to conjure up evidence, or what seemed to be,
to prove that Vernon was her father. Her attorney established that the DNA was 99% accurate, and also led to another interesting find--that Elvis Presley was still alive and had submitted the DNA to Eliza as proof of her claim.

There are, however, a few flaws in the story. Eliza is associated with the foremost deceivers known to the Elvis World. A family member noted for her obvious deceptions to Elvis fans, a group of people known as the Dr. Hinton group, for years trying to publicly deceive people into believing that Elvis was alive and that they had him in the form of "Jesse," in the palm of their hands, and, finally, The Kin of Rock and Roll, through it's own careful investigation, has found other connections to Eliza that all lead to the same road, the same finding that this story is just absolutely NOT true.

Dr. Hinton's "Jesse" is NOT Elvis Presley and the cruel antics by some of this group and the others associated with this decades-old scam is worthy of public denouncing as well as continuation of investigation against other pressing charges. These people have disgraced the memory of Elvis Presley and the Presley family members. As we continue our investigation, we are learning that all of the above are interconnected in what may well prove to be the scam of the century.

By the way, Eliza, we are told, has now given up on being Vernon's daughter, and has turned her sights on becoming instead the illegitimate heir of the one and only King of Rock and Roll. As we learn more on this, we will report it here. We can't help but feel that people such as these have tried the public patience for greed and notoriety, and, perhaps, to try and uncover what they would perceive to be "the story of the century."

DNA Testing Systems Announces That Presley Petitions Memphis Court to Reopen Vernon Elvis Presley Estate Asks to Be Admitted as Heir | Last update: 2:44 p.m. EDT Sept. 23, 2008 MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --

Eliza A. Presley, asserting that her father is Vernon Elvis Presley, father of entertainer Elvis A. Presley, filed a petition today in Shelby County Probate Court to reopen her father's estate. Attorney Kathleen L. Caldwell of Memphis placed the five-page petition in the hands of the clerk of court in downtown Memphis at 10:25 a.m. (CDT). (cont'd >>>>)

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ELIZA PRESLEY'S JOURNEY TO FIND HER FAMILY

It was filed under docket number D-5830. The basis of Presley's suit is as a "pretermitted heir." This term designates one who would likely stand to inherit
under a will, except that the person who wrote the will did not know or failed to mention the party at the time the will was written. Evidence in safekeeping with
the petitioner suggests that many people knew that she was Vernon Elvis Presley's daughter. Presley, 46, was adopted at birth and just recently discovered that she is the daughter of Vernon Elvis Presley and hence half-sister of her father's famous
son, Elvis, who died in 1977. The two have different mothers. Their father Vernon Elvis Presley was executor and trustee of his son Elvis' estate. Vernon Elvis Presley died two years later Elvis Presley is known as the King of Rock 'n Roll and is celebrated as one of the greatest entertainers of all time. News of his death at his Graceland home in Memphis, Tenn., on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42 shocked
the world. The only child of parents Vernon Elvis and Gladys Love Smith Presley of Tupelo, Miss., he left a daughter, Lisa Marie, by ex-wife Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. His will appointed as executor and trustee his father, Vernon E. Presley.

Vernon Presley had no other known children at the time of his death in 1979. A son, Jessie, the twin brother of Elvis, was stillborn, January 8, 1935.
SOURCE DNA Testing Systems

The Kin of Rock and Roll .Responds to the article on "Vernon Presley's Daughter..."

REVISED 11/18/08: What is interesting about DNA testing is that the female DNA establishes the female line and the male DNA establishes the male line. How do we know this? Our family researchers for the Hood, Helms, and Presley lines performed the DNA testing to connect and confirm our ancestors with their descendants. They could only use male DNA to prove the links to our male ancestors. All the Presley DNA participants were males from each family line enabling the linking to male ancestors.

Thus, the lady in question, by virtue of what we were told with the DNA process, could not prove she is a Presley through DNA but would prove who her mother is/was. She would have needed a brother's DNA to prove that Vernon was the father. Obviously, she didn't have that proof* If she has proof that she is Vernon's daughter, then someone in the family, or Vernon, himself, may have known this. Vernon would have been married to Dee at the time this girl was born. The following information is from DNA Consultants:

* Citing that Elvis is not alive, and that there is no substantiated proof to the contrary.

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Woman claims kinship to Elvis; says she's daughter of Vernon Presley
By Lawrence Buser (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal Thursday, September 25, 2008

A 46-year-old woman who claims to be the half-sister of Elvis Presley is asking a court to reopen the estate of the rock-and-roll legend's father, Vernon Presley, and to be admitted as an heir.

According to the petition filed in Shelby County Probate Court, Eliza Alice Presley said her mother gave her up for adoption at birth and that after a lifetime search she learned this summer through DNA testing that Vernon Presley was her father.

The divorced mother of four then changed her name from Alice Elizabeth Tiffin.

"I am 99.99 percent sure that Eliza Presley and Elvis Aaron Presley are half siblings and that she is not related to Elvis Presley's mother's relatives and that can only mean that they share a father," said Donald Yates, head of DNA Consulting in Scottsdale, Ariz., who said he has worked on the case for five years.

"There was no DNA from Vernon. The relationship has to be inferred from the DNA from other family members. We're talking about samples from an extended family group."

He said that included DNA from Elvis, but he would not elaborate on where or how that was obtained.

The attorney who handled Vernon Presley's estate was not available for comment and Kevin Kern, spokesman for Graceland, is traveling out of the country.

Vernon Presley died June 26, 1979, at age 63. Elvis died in 1977.

Probate Court Clerk Chris Thomas said Wednesday a hearing on the Texas woman's petition is set for next month.

"I've never had one where someone comes in after the estate's been closed almost 25 years," he said. "Most of the people involved are dead."

He said Vernon Presley's estate distributed a total of about $200,000 to his heirs and has been closed since 1985.

Vernon Presley was the executor of the Elvis estate, the bulk of which went to his only daughter, Lisa Marie.

DNA expert Yates said Eliza Presley's mother, Florence Juanita Sharp, lived across the street from Graceland as a teenager, but that little is know about how she might have met Vernon Presley.

He said Sharp moved to Pasadena, Texas, where Eliza was born Jan. 23, 1962, and placed for adoption.

Despite the petition seeking to reopen Vernon Presley's estate and be admitted as an heir, Eliza Presley's motive is not money, Yates said.

"Her main goal is to be recognized as Vernon Presley's daughter and Elvis Presley's half sister," he said. "She's spent her entire lifetime searching for her true identity."

******************************* KIN COMMENT:

Other than DNA, what substantial evidence has been brought forward to prove that Vernon Presley had fathered a child by Florence
Juanita Sharp? They are saying that DNA is the sole proof. We await the rest of the story.

The birth mother of the lady known as Eliza A. Presley came forward to denounce any finding that she had had relations with either Vernon or Elvis Presley. She admitted knowing both personally but said that she had never been personally involved with either one.

Obviously, the case of Eliza A. Presley is ongoing at this time and has been reported now on Fox News 8 out of Cleveland, Ohio. At this time The Kin of Rock and Roll has learned that many of our material, both sourced and opinion, is appearing on many other sites related to Elvis. We would like to clarify that our comments are that of opinions unless otherwise noted. As part of our written material has been reproduced from this page, without our knowledge or consent, as a commentary on another site, we ask that viewers please read our disclaimer below with regard to the Eliza A. Presley court case:

"It should be known that The Kin of Rock and Roll, the extended Presley family network, through it's founder, Barbara Lee Rowe, does in no way attempt to make any statement either confirming or disputing the validity of the claim of Eliza A. Presley that she is an heir of Vernon Elvis Presley. We are waiting to hear directly from Eliza A. Presley, and, as well, awaiting the final decision from the court. As it is our mission to stand in defense of both Elvis and the Presley family, and to scrutinize myths and misconceptions having to do with both, we may choose to report some story(ies) concerning Elvis and/or family as they come to us, if they may have a general impact on the family and family name. As there has been no judgment from the court as of yet, we will not offer any further comment at this time other than to say that our original intent for the article on our site was specifically designed to relay the direction of DNA compatibility as it relates to male/female lineage and Ms. Presley's claim. Added emphasis was put on the previous testings of the Presley family males whose DNA was required to link DNA to our male Presley ancestors and, thus, to validate existence of and background for same."

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