The Ritz Hotel, London 300 people were evacuated to the nearby May Fair Hotel following a fire alarm in the hotel. No one was hurt in the blaze, which started in the basement casino kitchen's extraction vents. The Ritz casino only suffered "minor damage". Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was convalescing at the Ritz when she died following a stroke on 8 April 2013. There has been criticism because the Ritz has not paid any corporation tax since being taken over by the Barclay twins. The accounts indicate that the profitable hotel uses a series of tax reliefs to reduce its corporation tax
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company lavish hotel. He also boasts about a prior situation where he "ran off on the plug twice". The Ritz Paris was also referenced in Kenneth Oppel's novel "Skybreaker". The main character visits for a meeting with a man who wants the coordinates of the mythical airship "Hyperion". The man he meets mentions that he enjoyed "putting on the Ritz", but would be foolish to pay for it. Michael Hutchence of INXS aged 37 was found dead at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney on 22 November 1997 in Room 524 American telenovela and drama "Jane the Virgin", aired on