Complex sentence: "Today there is not a single recognized scholar on the planet who has any doubts about the matter, and the entire story was invented by Notovitch, who earned a good deal of money and a substantial amount of notoriety for his hoax".
Split into simpler sentences: Today there is not a single recognized scholar on the planet who has any doubts about the matter. The entire story was invented by Notovitch, who earned a good deal of money and a substantial amount of notoriety for his hoax.