Complex sentence: In an NY Times profile, Phillips claims to have gotten in trouble for shoplifting as a young man and is also the second cousins with Richard Silver the wealthy teenager who swindled his family heirlooms.
Split into simpler sentences: In an NY Times profile, Phillips claims to have gotten in trouble for shoplifting as a young man. Phillips is also second cousins with Richard Silver the wealthy teenager who swindled his family heirlooms.