The news filtering in has it that the popular London-based socialite, BASO, is dead.

Freelanews gathered that the larger-than-life philanthropist had been battling a stroke ailment for the past two years after he slumped in front of his Deuce Lounge in Barking East, London.

BASO was one of the big boys the popular musician, 9ice, eulogised in his song, Living Things.

A big boy in all ramifications, he was survived, among others, by two of the children he shared with Eniola-Shola Lumous, the daughter of popular Ikorodu born socialite, late Chief Shola Lumous.

May his soul rest in peace.