Complex sentence: The house was purchased by the English entertainer Rod Hull, of Rod Hull and Emu fame, in the late 1980s unfortunately he went bankrupt renovating it and the house was repossessed.
Split into simpler sentences: The house was purchased by the English entertainer Rod Hull, of Rod Hull and Emu fame, in the late 1980's. Unfortunately he went bankrupt renovating it and the house was repossessed.