It's always better to have money and to spend a fair amount of it although holding on to some would have worked out better in the long run. In my case it was a combination of Hollywood and being on the receiving end of litigation by some malicious Saudis who sued me for $9 billion. I won in the end, but you know the system in America, anyone with money can usually break anyone with less money with impunity. If I had stayed in the UK, I don't think they would have dared sue given that losers bear costs, a far more sensile rule than what we have here. But it strikes me that many of the procedural laws in America are written mainly to benefit lawyers and no one else.