[1] It ran for fifteen years, though at the beginning of the 1990s it lost readership to glossy titles such as Tatler.

The founder gossip columnists covering the London social scene were Nicholas Haslam,[4] Frances Lynn,[5][6] Stephen Lavers and Amanda Lear.

Haslam, an Old Etonian society decorator, wrote about his British aristocratic and Hollywood movie star friends under the pen name Paul Parsons.

Haslam invited Lynn to all the parties he organised for his celebrity friends like Andy Warhol,[11] so that she could report about them in her column.

Although Ritz Newspaper's policy was to avoid paying their contributing editors, including photojournalist Clement Barclay, established writers like Clive James[13] and Peter York[14] contributed to the magazine, as occasionally did established pop and rock stars such as George Michael.