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A doctor in his 60s pays a 'sugar baby' student £2,500 a month to keep him company and he has even bought her an entire bar.

Self-confessed "sugar baby", Ilham Chocolat, 25, is showered with gifts by her admirer and receives money in exchange for platonic dates.

He's even fulfilled her dreams of becoming a landlady by buying her a bar to run.

Ilham is so successful she will now be giving advice on snaring sugar daddies at a special summit in London this month.

Regarded as one of the best sugar babies in the business, Ilham, who lives in Bologna, Italy, met her ‘sugar daddy’ – a 60-year-old divorced doctor – when she was just 20.

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Originally from Togo in Western Africa, Ilham did not realise, initially, that accepting substantial sums from him in exchange for her company, meant she was a sugar baby.

As the years have passed, her feelings have deepened and she now claims she and the doctor enjoy “platonic love ”.

She explained: “I started a relationship with a man without understanding what the name [given to] the relationship was.

“I was 20 and he was 55.

“At that stage, I didn’t understand how to define the relationship.”

Always attracted to older men, Ilham, who is taking a degree in African studies at university in Bologna, said that, after meeting him through a friend, it felt natural to keep seeing him – although their relationship has never been sexual.

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Meanwhile, her 36-year-old boyfriend of eight months, who she does sleep with, is happy with her ‘job’ as a sugar baby.

Although he does not pay to date her, he recently bought her a coveted Tiffany necklace for her 25th birthday.

“I’m not having sex with my sugar daddy,” she said. “It’s fine. I find men of my age very immature.

“So, when I met the older man, the doctor, he offered me a figure that I needed in that moment of my life.

“He didn’t want anything physical from me.”

Attracted by his intellect, she said: “He was very, very smart.”

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But they have always agreed that their relationship will never become more serious, largely because of the age difference.

“He gives me an allowance of 3,000 euros, around £2,500 a month,” she said.

“He takes me shopping and anything I want he gets me.

“Whatever I want or need, I can have.

“If I need 5,000 or 6,000 euros I just ask him. He’s bought me a diamond ring, clothes and taken me to fancy hotels.”

The doctor has also given Ilham a credit card, enabling her to spend whenever she wishes.

But his most extravagant gift, less than a year after meeting, was a bar, which he bought for her in northern Italy – allowing her to fulfil her childhood dream of being a landlady.

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“I worked as a waitress at 16 and was always interested in having a bar,” she explained. “Now I have one which I can spend time in.”

Ilham insists that the doctor gets a good deal for the money he spends on her.

“He enjoys his time with me,” she explained. “He said I made him feel like a small boy and full of energy.”

Based in Rome, she sees him bi-monthly and has even introduced him to her family – who approve of her relationship.

He has also helped her launch a charity endeavour, which involves providing washing machines to Africa.

Ilham moved from Togo, which is poor and dependent on foreign aid, when she was eight.

“But I want to help Africa and provide washing machines so the people can flourish,” she explained. “I am a philanthropist.”

Ilham will share her secrets at Seeking Arrangement’s Sugar Baby Summit in London this month.

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