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  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:Entertainment & Performing Arts
  • Language:English
  • Pages:65
  • eBook ISBN:9781483531717

Justin Bieber

As Long as You Love Him

by Hot News

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Overview
As the sun rose over the tropical paradise of Panama on Jan. 25, 2014 Justin Bieber sat in the sharp morning light pondering his life. The young superstar was one of the best-known people on the planet. A veritable pop hit machine worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He would not even be 20 for another two months. Yet his shocking arrest just days before in Miami Beach for drag racing, driving under the influence and resisting arrest seemed to signal a turning point. For most of the previous two years, Justin had glided from one scrape to the next but his Teflon-coated reputation always emerged intact. A wink or aw shucks smile could will the critics away. But Justin’s bad behavior was escalating. His mother, Pattie Mallette, manager Scooter Braun, mentor Usher and scores of others were beginning to fear the young pop star was heading down a very dangerous road. In music history, that drug- and alcohol-littered laneway was tragically well known. It included names like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and countless others. That unfortunate group was also known coldly as the 27 Club – the age the stars died at. Those closest to Bieber were ready and willing to do anything to prevent him from becoming a rock and roll casualty.
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They did not want him lying on a slab in the morgue, a toe tag being the only thing that could identify who he was – and who he had once been. For weeks, the walls had seemed to be closing on him. Everywhere Justin turned, there was trouble of one kind or another. Cops in California found drugs in his posh Calabasas playpen two weeks before after a juvenile egg-throwing incident. While Justin would likely skate on vandalism charges, one of his hangers-on, Lil Za, was unlikely to be so lucky. Things were getting so hot in southern California that Justin decided to take a break with some pals, and his father, Jeremy Bieber, in sunny Miami Beach. “Justin had always loved the scene in Miami,” a childhood friend said. “It was a lot wilder and there fewer eyes watching what he was up to. There were paps but it was nothing like Los Angeles.” At the King of Diamonds strip joint on NE 5th Avenue on Jan. 21, Bieber helped rapper Lil Scrappy celebrate his birthday in style. The naked women roaming the club were quite happy too as the Baby singer spread the love to the tune of $75,000 in singles for their raunchy antics. Bieber and company, including his pal rapper Khalil Sharief, 19, had hunkered down at a posh beige palazzo in Miami Beach. This was to be party central, a headquarters of hedonism in the tropical metropolis. There, with his 38-year-old father, posse of pals and army of hangers-on, Justin was intent on having some big fun. And tossing out the rulebook. After reportedly smoking marijuana all day, Bieber and company hit the popular SET nightclub in South Beach. That went well with another long-festering rumor: Justin was spending more than $5,000 a week on pot. In addition to the reefer, Justin was also taking anti-anxiety drugs his mother had admitted giving him. The pills were to calm his rattled nerves. It was clear to everyone in his ever-expanding orbit that the pressure of being the biggest pop star on the planet was starting to get the better of him. In Stratford, Ontario, where he grew up, old friends were also becoming increasingly alarmed. They had watched anxiously as Justin’s disastrous 2013 went from bad to worse. And nearly all of them blamed Jeremy Bieber. To them, Jeremy was wielding too much influence over Justin – who, more than anything wanted to please his father. “Jeremy likes the money, the fame, the travel, the lifestyle… he’s more interested in being Justin’s buddy than his father,” a longtime friend said. “He’s not going to tell Justin that something is wrong or that he should think twice before doing something stupid. Jeremy isn’t going to do anything that’s going to wreck his relationship with Justin or cause problems. “That would be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.” As Jeremy’s star was rising in Justin’s eyes, his mother was being shunted aside in favor of his party-hardy pater. Before Justin hit the big time, Jeremy lived across the country in Winnipeg. When the dollars began rolling in, so did Jeremy. Justin bought him buildings, cars and an $850,000 mansion outside Stratford. It was nice work. Not surprisingly, it was reportedly Jeremy who closed off the quiet Miami Beach street so
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