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"Justin Bieber is cruising away from some serious charges.\r\nThe 20-year-old made a plea deal on Wednesday to avoid jail time for his DUI arrest stemming from the Lamborghini drag-racing incident in Miami in January. The &amp;quot;Baby&amp;quot; singer was not in court as his legal team entered a guilty plea to careless driving and resisting an officer without violence, allowing him to skate from the serious charge against him: DUI.\r\nAs for his punishment, Bieber will have to take 12 hours of anger management, pay court costs, and make a $50,000 donation to charity. (FYI: The Biebs earned $80 million last year, according to Forbes, so $50,000 is virtual pocket change.)\r\nBieber&amp;apos;s legal team has become quite adept at making legal deals to keep him from behind bars. Last month, the Grammy-nominated singer pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vandalism charges for egging his neighbor&amp;apos;s home in Calabasas, California. He&amp;apos;s serving two years of probation in that case, taking anger management, and paid the victim $80,900 in restitution.\r\n[Related: A Guide to Justin Bieber&amp;apos;s Tattoos by the Police]\r\nThe young star&amp;apos;s attorneys have just one more criminal case to resolve for him. In January, he was charged with assault in Toronto after allegedly hitting a limo driver.\r\nBieber&amp;apos;s Miami DUI arrest played out in the headlines at the start of the year. Then 19, he was pulled over in a yellow Lamborghini while drag racing with his friend Khalil Amir Sharieff, who was also arrested, at 4 a.m. Bieber, who was traveling with a model named Chantel Jeffries at the time, failed a sobriety test, according to police. The star, who admitted he smoked pot prior to getting pulled over, then became belligerent with police, dropping F-bombs galore, and was also charged with resisting arrest without violence and driving with an expired driver&amp;apos;s license.\r\n[Related: From Ali to Za: The Definitive Guide to Justin Bieber&amp;apos;s Inner Circle]\r\nFootage of him at Miami-Dade County Jail later went viral because it featured the young star doing push-ups in his cell. When he was released, he climbed atop his waiting black SUV &amp;#x2014; similar to Michael Jackson after he pleaded not guilty to child molestation charges &amp;#x2014; and waved to fans. It was certainly one of the more dramatic celebrity arrests we&amp;apos;ve seen in recent years.\r\nOne would think Bieber would be tired out from all his personal drama &amp;#x2014; he also has civil lawsuits pending against him &amp;#x2014; but he added to it last month by getting into an altercation with Orlando Bloom at a restaurant/bar in Ibiza, Spain. In recent weeks, he&amp;apos;s also been partying with the Kardashians a bit &amp;#x2014; first at Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci&amp;apos;s birthday party in Ibiza, then at Kylie Jenner&amp;apos;s 17th birthday bash over the weekend.\r\nWith a jet-setting lifestyle like that, who has time for jail?\r\nFollow Suzy Byrne on Twitter"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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