Justin Bieber monkeys around with family photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

IN the endless cycle of Justin Bieber-sponsored mischief, the singer has made photo fun of Kimye and paid fines for abandoning his former pet.

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JUSTIN Bieber is up to his unusual tricks, posting a photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West with a photoshopped fantasy of their photogenic progeny.

The pint-sized provocateur tricked up an image of the celebrity couple holding hands with Bieber’s idealised version of their “child” — a miniature version of West, captioned: “Kim and Kanye’s kid is swagged out.”

Presumably, Biebs was making fun of the couple’s actual child North West’s debut modelling assignment, promoted by proud mother Kim on her Instagram feed.

At just over a year old, and already featured in Vogue alongside her parents, North West has booked her solo modelling job in the fall issue of CR Fashion Book. The baby girl is seen wearing a Chanel dress with matching tiny quilted bag, diamond earrings and bare feet.

The name-checking doesn’t stop at luxury brands, though, with styling by CR Fashion Book editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, photography by Michael Avedon (grandson of the esteemed photographer Richard Avedon) and the image embellished with a quote from Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld himself: “It’s never too early to care about fashion!”

Somehow, at a mere 13-months old, North West has earned a place in a spread with the theme “Legends”, making 20-year-old Bieber look positively ancient (and unlegendary).

Meanwhile, Bieber’s been paying the price for some earlier antics. German authorities say Bieber has paid 8000 euros ($12,000) owed after attempting to bring a pet monkey into the country last year without the necessary papers.

Bieber failed to produce vaccination and import papers for Mally the monkey on arriving in Munich in March 2013, and the animal was seized by customs.

Mally became the German government’s property after the singer failed to claim his pet, and now lives at a zoo in northern Germany.

Bieber’s own mini-me ... Mally at his new home in northern Germany. Picture: Holger Hollemann

Show me the monkey ... Justin Bieber and Mally. Picture: Twitter

Franz Emde, a spokesman for the German Federal Nature Conservation Agency, said that Bieber this week paid a 2,100 euros fine for the monkey’s import plus the costs of several weeks’ care at an animal shelter.

Failure to pay could have put Bieber in legal difficulty if he travelled in the EU.