Complex sentence: Her meteoric success in the Golden Age of Porn, and disappearance intrigued adult industry writers and caused interest in her whereabouts, and a myth about her having met a sordid fate several years after her heyday began to be accepted as fact.
Split into simpler sentences: Her meteoric success in the Golden Age of Porn, and her subsequent disappearance, intrigued adult industry writers and caused interest in her whereabouts. A myth quickly sprang up about her having met a sordid fate several years after her heyday, and it began to be accepted as fact.