Her litigiousness was so excessive that, on 5 March 1987, the High Court declared her to be a "vexatious litigant", preventing her from commencing any further legal actions without the permission of the Court.
In 1972 she took out a libel action against the actor Kenneth More for mistakenly referring to Mattioli as Roger Moore's "wife" when he was still legally married to Squires.
In 1988 following bankruptcy proceedings she lost her home in Bray, to which she returned the following night to recover her love letters from Roger Moore.
While working in the East End, Squires worked at a club which gave her the name Dorothy, which she liked and used on stage after that time.
Squires herself had hired the Palladium for a series of shows, and they exceeded expectations and sold out of tickets within hours. A double album of the event was issued.