{"product_id":"9781483531717","title":"Justin Bieber: As Long as You Love Him","description":"They did not want him lying on a slab in the morgue, a toe tag being the only thing that\u003cbr\u003ecould identify who he was – and who he had once been.\u003cbr\u003eFor weeks, the walls had seemed to be closing on him. Everywhere Justin turned, there\u003cbr\u003ewas trouble of one kind or another.\u003cbr\u003eCops in California found drugs in his posh Calabasas playpen two weeks before after a\u003cbr\u003ejuvenile egg-throwing incident. While Justin would likely skate on vandalism charges,\u003cbr\u003eone of his hangers-on, Lil Za, was unlikely to be so lucky.\u003cbr\u003eThings were getting so hot in southern California that Justin decided to take a break with\u003cbr\u003esome pals, and his father, Jeremy Bieber, in sunny Miami Beach.\u003cbr\u003e“Justin had always loved the scene in Miami,” a childhood friend said. “It was a lot\u003cbr\u003ewilder and there fewer eyes watching what he was up to. There were paps but it was\u003cbr\u003enothing like Los Angeles.”\u003cbr\u003eAt the King of Diamonds strip joint on NE 5th Avenue on Jan. 21, Bieber helped rapper\u003cbr\u003eLil Scrappy celebrate his birthday in style.\u003cbr\u003eThe naked women roaming the club were quite happy too as the Baby singer spread the\u003cbr\u003elove to the tune of $75,000 in singles for their raunchy antics.\u003cbr\u003eBieber and company, including his pal rapper Khalil Sharief, 19, had hunkered down at a\u003cbr\u003eposh beige palazzo in Miami Beach. This was to be party central, a headquarters of\u003cbr\u003ehedonism in the tropical metropolis.\u003cbr\u003eThere, with his 38-year-old father, posse of pals and army of hangers-on, Justin was\u003cbr\u003eintent on having some big fun.\u003cbr\u003eAnd tossing out the rulebook.\u003cbr\u003eAfter reportedly smoking marijuana all day, Bieber and company hit the popular SET\u003cbr\u003enightclub in South Beach. That went well with another long-festering rumor: Justin was\u003cbr\u003espending more than $5,000 a week on pot.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to the reefer, Justin was also taking anti-anxiety drugs his mother had\u003cbr\u003eadmitted giving him. The pills were to calm his rattled nerves.\u003cbr\u003eIt was clear to everyone in his ever-expanding orbit that the pressure of being the biggest\u003cbr\u003epop star on the planet was starting to get the better of him.\u003cbr\u003eIn Stratford, Ontario, where he grew up, old friends were also becoming increasingly\u003cbr\u003ealarmed. They had watched anxiously as Justin’s disastrous 2013 went from bad to\u003cbr\u003eworse.\u003cbr\u003eAnd nearly all of them blamed Jeremy Bieber. To them, Jeremy was wielding too much\u003cbr\u003einfluence over Justin – who, more than anything wanted to please his father.\u003cbr\u003e“Jeremy likes the money, the fame, the travel, the lifestyle… he’s more interested in\u003cbr\u003ebeing Justin’s buddy than his father,” a longtime friend said. “He’s not going to tell Justin\u003cbr\u003ethat something is wrong or that he should think twice before doing something stupid.\u003cbr\u003eJeremy isn’t going to do anything that’s going to wreck his relationship with Justin or\u003cbr\u003ecause problems.\u003cbr\u003e“That would be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.”\u003cbr\u003eAs Jeremy’s star was rising in Justin’s eyes, his mother was being shunted aside in favor\u003cbr\u003eof his party-hardy pater.\u003cbr\u003eBefore Justin hit the big time, Jeremy lived across the country in Winnipeg. When the\u003cbr\u003edollars began rolling in, so did Jeremy. Justin bought him buildings, cars and an $850,000\u003cbr\u003emansion outside Stratford. It was nice work.\u003cbr\u003eNot surprisingly, it was reportedly Jeremy who closed off the quiet Miami Beach street so","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126582329584,"sku":"9781483531717","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781483531717_p0.jpg?v=1763629537","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781483531717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}