a towel shop since the mid-70s. Europe Enniskerry, Ireland: Ritz-Carlton Powerscourt Hotel: Management terminated October 1, 2013 North America Atlanta, Georgia: Buckhead Ritz-Carlton - reopened as The Whitley December 2017 Aspen, Colorado: Ritz-Carlton Aspen—Management terminated August 2, 1997 Cancún, Mexico: Ritz-Carlton Cancún—Opened 1993 and rebranded as Kempinski on September 1, 2022 Dearborn, Michigan: Ritz-Carlton Dearborn—Management terminated June 2, 2010 Houston, Texas: Ritz-Carlton Houston—Management terminated August 2, 1997 Kansas City, Missouri: Ritz-Carlton Kansas City Lake Las Vegas Ritz-Carlton: Opened 2003; closed May 2, 2010 Montego Bay, Jamaica: Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall—Management terminated July 2013 Palm Beach, Florida: Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach—Management terminated July 1, 2013 Pasadena, California: Ritz-Carlton Huntington—Opened 1991; management terminated January 2008 Phoenix, Arizona: Ritz-Carlton Phoenix—Opened 1988; management contract ended July 24, 2015 Washington, District of Columbia: Ritz-Carlton Washington D.C.—Management terminated August 2, 1997 White Plains, New York: The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester--- Opened December 2008 Management Terminated September 2020 Australia Sydney Ritz-Carlton Double Bay: management terminated 2001 In popular culture In E.B. White's 1970 children's novel The Trumpet of the Swan, the main character Louis (a trumpeter swan) stays at the Ritz-Carlton Boston, where he eats watercress sandwiches and sleeps in the bathtub. On the HBO original series Boardwalk Empire, the character of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (portrayed by Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of Atlantic County, occupies the entire 9th floor of a fictionalized version of the hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The real Enoch "Nucky" Johnson on which Nucky Thompson was based did in fact occupy an entire floor of suites at the Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City until his arrest in 1941 on charges of tax evasion. A 1922 novella by F. Scott Fitzgerald is titled The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. The 2003 film American Wedding used the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, as the filming location for the wedding venue. The Ritz also features in the Irving Berlin song "Puttin' On the Ritz" in which the hotel chain served as an inspiration for the titular expression, meaning to live opulently. In 2015, the rapper Plies released the song "Ran Off On Da Plug Twice", originally titled "Ritz Carlton". In the song, he raps about his affinity for routinely spending time at the lavish hotel. Michael Hutchence of INXS, aged 37, was found dead at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney on November 22, 1997, in Room 524. American telenovela and drama Jane the Virgin uses