Around the world in 80 scandals: From visiting Brazilian brothels to fighting in the Hamptons, Justin Bieber has stunk up the whole globe this year.
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1. LONDON, FEBRUARY 28
Splash News The singer celebrated his 19th birthday at a UK club — then he was snapped returning to his hotel at 6 a.m., shirtless in below-freezing temperatures.
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2. POLAND, MARCH 26
Tomasz Stanczak/Reuters Bieber bared his abs yet again, this time at a Polish airport. “He wasn’t told to take off his clothes. He had no metal objects on him,” a spokeswoman for Wladyslaw Reymont Airport told Reuters. “He’s quite skinny, so I assume he was probably freezing.”
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3. GERMANY, MARCH 28
Twitter The singer brought his pet capuchin monkey into Munich on his private plane. But when officials discovered he didn’t have the proper paperwork, they confiscated the animal and charged Bieber a fine. The monkey now lives in a German zoo.
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4. THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 12
Between concerts, Biebs stopped by the Anne Frank Museum, where the singer wrote the most cringeworthy guest-book entry ever: “Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”
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5. LOS ANGELES, MAY 27 AND OCTOBER 7
First, it was reported that Bieber was under investigation for reckless driving. Then, a video surfaced of Biebs at a party, holding what appears to be a joint.
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6. NEW YORK, JULY 10 AND AUGUST 4
A video showed the star urinating into a NYC restaurant’s mop bucket,t hen yelling, “F – -k Bill Clinton!” A month later, Page Six reported, he sicced his bodyguards on a man after a Hamptons argument “over a waitress and an H&M bowtie.”
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7. CHINA, SEPTEMBER 30
The teen posted an Instagram photo of his bodyguards carrying him up the Great Wall of China. Turns out, Bieber was tired from filming a video — in which he’s seen grinding on unsuspecting tourists — at the landmark.
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8. COLOMBIA, OCTOBER 29
The “Beauty and a Beat” singer, channeling his inner Banksy, showed support for Chris Brown, recently arrested for felony assault, by painting “Free Breezy” on a wall in Bogotá.
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9. BRAZIL, NOVEMBER 1 AND 6
AKM-GSI Last week, the singer was photographed sneaking out of a Rio de Janeiro brothel. Days later, a woman leaked footage of herself in the same room as a sleeping, shirt-free Bieber.