 Nonetheless the Ritz continued to be a social hub for the aristocracy and attract the world 's elite in the 1950s . It was very popular with the wealthy family of Agar Khan , and oil magnate J. Paul Getty , reputedly the richest man in the world at the time , lived at the Ritz after the war . On one occasion a photographer working for Time and Life magazines staged an incident outside the hotel by arranging for the barrowboy to pour coppers onto the pavement as Getty emerged from the hotel and photographed just as he went to pick them up . Shell Oil heiress Olga Deterding lived at hotel for several years , and in one altercation with her lover she threw his trousers out of the window . In 1956 she tired of the high life and spent a period working on Albert Schweitzer 's leper colony in French Equatorial Africa . Film stars Rita Hayworth and Tallulah Bankhead were regular guests at the hotel ; Hayworth was married to Prince Aly Khan between 1949 and 1953 . Another notable resident of the Ritz during this period was Nubar Gulbenkian , an " expansive extrovert " who kept a permanent suite at the Ritz and made exorbitant demands for luxuries and foods , even if out of season . 
