Original sentence: "  This lawsuit resulted in Lafferty's being discharged.But the real bombshell came when the litigants produced an affidavit from Tammy Payette, 28, a nurse who had attended to Duke in her final weeks.However, a controversial change to her will near her death put her vast fortune in the control of her Irish-born butler, Bernard Lafferty, who Demopoulos described in a subsequent lawsuit as "an illiterate, unstable and even dangerous person.Payette maintained that Kivowitz (one of Duke's doctors) and Lafferty had conspired to murder Duke through the use of "massive sedation", including morphine and Demerol
Edited sentence: " A lawsuit initiated Demopoulos resulted in Lafferty's being discharged.However, a controversial change to her will near her death put her vast fortune in the control of her Irish-born butler, Bernard Lafferty, who Demopoulos described as "an illiterate, unstable and even dangerous person