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"  Sixteen-year-old Justin Bieber&amp;#039;s star literally went pop\u2014straight from a 2007 YouTube video (posted by his mom) of him singing Ne-Yo&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;So Sick&amp;quot; to a record deal with LA Reid&amp;#039;s label the following year; a No. 1 Billboard album, My World 2.0; gigs on Saturday Night Live and American Idol; a People magazine superlative (&amp;quot;World&amp;#039;s Biggest Pop Star&amp;quot;); and a whole new breed of fan: screaming, crying, fainting, fawning, &amp;#039;tweening, Twittering &amp;quot;Beliebers,&amp;quot; who could make the running of the bulls look like a geriatric walkathon. So when Bieber met 29-year-old bombshell and reality star Kim Kardashian at May&amp;#039;s White House correspondents&amp;#039; dinner and tweeted a flirty picture of them together\u2014with the caption, &amp;quot;Look it&amp;#039;s my girlfriend&amp;quot;\u2014the mob organized. &amp;quot;I started to get death threats from 10-year-old girls, saying that I stole their man and they were gonna come find me,&amp;quot; Kardashian says. &amp;quot;So I Twittered Justin and let him know that his Beliebers want to kill me.&amp;quot; Faced with the tough decision of letting the world believe he was dating the raven-haired pinup of his dreams or placating his fans with the innocent truth, Bieber took the high road. &amp;quot;ladies calm down,&amp;quot; he tweeted. &amp;quot;@kimkardashian is a friend. a very sexy friend but a friend. no need 4 threats. Let&amp;#039;s all be friends and hang out often ;).&amp;quot; To reward his fan loyalty, ELLE gives the teen idol another day in paradise.  Click here to watch our exclusive behind-the-scenes video of Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian cooling off on Paradise Island. To see all the photos from our Bahamas shoot, pick up the September issue of ELLE, on newsstands August 17th or click here to subscribe! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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