Complex sentence: Emmet sued Spelling a second time in 1996 after Spelling had published his memoirs; she claimed that Spelling had defamed her in his book, as she had not been credited with conceiving of the original idea for "Family".
Split into simpler sentences: Emmet sued Spelling a second time in 1996 after Spelling published his memoirs. She claimed that Spelling had defamed her in his book, as she had not been credited with conceiving of the original idea for "Family".