If you donated for your star with your own money, you can add the paypal information to the request (it will even ask for it).
It will ask for the old
email address, or at least parts of it.
Provide the place where you live / lived in the past, it also asks you for it.
Instead of jut providing a country, you can provide zip codes or the name of the town where you live.
In the "additional information" field you can provide additional information if you think it's useful / it proves that this account is yours.
If you click the text boxes on the recovery page, some additional information will be displayed next to them.
This requires java script to be activated.
im aware and i have done all this too.