10 worst Justin Bieber boo-boos

June 17, 2016 at 3:45PM
Justin Bieber appeared in court via video feed in Miami in January 2014.
Justin Bieber appeared in court via video feed in Miami in January 2014. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The pop star has made a lot of mistakes in his career. Here are the highlights.

1. The star was caught on video supposedly peeing in a mop bucket in a nightclub kitchen, laughing with his friends and yelling, "[expletive] Bill Clinton!" (2013)

2. Biebs threw eggs at a neighbor's mansion. He paid $80,000 in restitution, attended anger management classes, sold the house to Khloe Kardashian and moved into an L.A. hotel room. (2014)

3. He got booted from Mayan pyramids in Mexico for pulling his pants down and climbing into an off-limits area. Biebs claimed that he and his entourage were simply taking photos of themselves mooning one another. (2016)

4. After visiting the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, he untastefully tweeted: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber." (2013)

5. Bieber's monkey, Mally, was taken by German customs officials after the star tried to bring it on tour without proper paperwork. The monkey was placed in a wildlife sanctuary. (2013)

6. He commanded $2,000 for fans to do meet-and-greets with him backstage, but then canceled them because he "feels like a zoo animal." (2016)

7. "Why the [expletive] are you doing this to me? I ain't got no [expletive] weapons," Biebs told a Miami cop who'd arrested him. Because Bieb's Lamborghini was racing a Ferrari in a residential neighborhood. (2014)

8. He shared photos on Instagram of himself spray painting a wall in Brazil. The crime comes with a fine and up to a year in jail. He pretty much did the same thing the week before in Colombia. (2013)

9. Paparazzi photographed him leaving a brothel in Rio de Janeiro. (2013)

10. At a special acoustic show in Toronto, he blanked mid-song on the words to his own song "Christmas Eve." "What the [expletive] are the words?" he asked a room full of young people. (2015)

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Jon Bream

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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