Complex sentence: Known and feared for being extremely ruthless in business and controlling and manipulative with his children, he was a very good friend of Stephanie Forrester and saw her as his true love but nothing happened between them because she refused to leave her husband Eric Forrester.
Split into simpler sentences: Known and feared for being extremely ruthless in business and controlling and manipulative with his children. He was a very good friend of Stephanie Forrester, and saw her as his true love, but nothing happened between them because she refused to leave her husband Eric Forrester.