Meet the Togolese 'Sugar baby' student paid £2,500 a month to keep 60-year-old doctor company

 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.
 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.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.”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.

 “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.”

Culled from Daily Mirror