I've seen/heard lectures of hers where she does the same thing with other personalities as well. There's the infamous confusion of Brooke Foss Westcott and William Wynn Westcott in New Age Bible Versions, for example, where she admits (albeit only in a footnote) that she is merely speculating. However, on some shortwave program in the early 90s, I heard a lecture of hers where she said outright that B. F. Westcott was really W. W. Westcott, with no qualifications.
It's always a good rule of thumb to believe the opposite of whatever G. A. Riplinger says. She's a fraud.