I never knew that. Sort of the same as Carol Kaye laying claim to playing on stuff she didn't, eh?
I have those b&w photos, plus two color photos, from what appears to be different time periods, of her with the bass; until proven otherwise, I'll assume she had the bass for a while, anyway, whether borrowed or otherwise. I don't think these were PhotoChopped®.
No, they weren't photoshopped, she at least had it in her possession and played it on stage at least once.
I just looked her up, she's on Facebook, now living in Missouri. Her profile pic is the same b&w one she was using 15 years ago, and there are for old b&w pics of her with basses, the two with the Ric and two with a Fender. Who knows how far back they go. Those pics looked old 15 years ago. What bothered me is that she either claimed or at least suggested that she owned it at the time she posted those pics.
She got caught in a discussion in the Pit chat where someone (maybe Kevin Borden) had posted a pic of one of his basses, taken in his own back yard, and she swore it was hers. It wasn't her first exaggeration.