Complex sentence: His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is of Italian descent, and his father, Charles J. Cooper (died 2011, age 71), was of Irish descent and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.
Split into simpler sentences: His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is of Italian descent. His father, Charles J. Cooper (died 2011, age 71), was of Irish descent, and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.