 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.