{"id":21667,"date":"2011-12-26T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/justin-bieber-buys-17-year-old-childhood-friend-a-mustang-convertible-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:54:44","slug":"justin-bieber-buys-17-year-old-childhood-friend-a-mustang-convertible-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/26\/justin-bieber-buys-17-year-old-childhood-friend-a-mustang-convertible-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber buys 17-year-old childhood friend a Mustang convertible for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&#038;authornamef=Alanah+Eriksen\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alanah Eriksen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last updated at 3:54 PM on 26th December 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>He&#8217;s come a long way from his humble upbringing in a council estate. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And Justin Bieber &#8211; who is worth about \u00a354 million after just four years in the spotlight &#8211; wanted to share some of that fortune with his friends and family back home in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While staying in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario, over Christmas, the 17-year-old gave his childhood friend the keys to a white Mustang convertible.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/88f0article-2078630-0F461F5100000578-432_468x664.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"664\" alt=\"Extravagant: Justin Bieber has purchased a Mustang convertible for his childhood friend Ryan Butler for Christmas\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Extravagant: Justin Bieber has purchased a Mustang convertible for his childhood friend Ryan Butler for Christmas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Ryan Butler today shared a picture of the new two-door ride <\/span><span>with his 652,845 followers<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span>He said simply: &#8216;J<\/span><span>ustin got me a present. #swag!!!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pair grew up together in the city and Ryan&#8217;s British-born parents, Martin and Sharon Butler, took the budding singer under their wing when he was just five.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>They stepped in, along with Justin&#8217;s grandmother, to provide what they describe as &#8216;additional parenting&#8217;, when his natural mother, Pattie Mallette, was unable to cope, they told the Mail On Sunday last month.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pattie became pregnant with him Justin when she was just 17 during a brief relationship with Jeremy Bieber, a young carpenter and martial arts enthusiast with a criminal record for assault.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/26\/article-0-0F460D1D00000578-180_468x349.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"349\" alt=\"The new ride: Ryan posted a picture of the new car on Twitter\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new ride: Ryan posted a picture of the new car on Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span>Pattie and her son lived in a tiny rented flat in a dreary five-story council block.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Justin first met the Butlers, they lived in a modest, modern semi\u00a0 in a middle-class area of Stratford. It was a short walk from the rough block where Justin grew up, but to the little boy it must have seemed like a different world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ryan can be seen on Justin&#8217;s 2009 video for One Time in which he plays a video game with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Justin is known for his extravagant gift-giving and is reported to have spent \u00a330,000 on a Chanel watch for popstar girlfriend Selena Gomez when she was being treated for treated for malnourishment and exhaustion in July.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He recently surprised fans with a new song, be Alright, in Toronto, explaining that it was about how sometimes you need to let someone you love go.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/26\/article-0-0F445F1B00000578-524_468x522.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"522\" alt=\"He's got a big heart: Justin getting into the Christmas spirit on The Today Show on Friday\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got a big heart: Justin getting into the Christmas spirit on The Today Show on Friday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2078630\/Justin-Bieber-buys-17-year-old-childhood-friend-Mustang-convertible-Christmas.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Justin Bieber buys 17-year-old childhood friend a Mustang convertible for Christmas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Bieber buys 17-year-old childhood friend a Mustang convertible for Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Alanah Eriksen Last updated at 3:54 PM on 26th December 2011 He&#8217;s come a long way from his humble upbringing in a council estate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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