Zuckerberg worked hard to keep the $ 59 million Tahoe contract, according to a report

Mark Zuckerberg takes his privacy very seriously.

The Facebook CEO has quietly bought real estate worth $ 59 million in Lake Tahoe, California, according to a report released Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. He allegedly used a limited liability company called Golden Range, a wealth manager and confidentiality agreement for the purchase of two adjacent homes on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. The agreements forced the real estate agents to keep Zuckerberg's identity secret and demanded online deletion of photos of the houses to be removed, according to the report.

Zuckerberg also has properties in San Francisco, Palo Alto and the Hawaiian Island of Kauai.

The tech billionaire would have bought his first property in Lake Tahoe in December for $ 22 million and the second for $ 37 million in January.

Zuckerberg's efforts to preserve the confidentiality of the transaction come as Facebook struggles with questions about user privacy. The company is shocked by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from 87 million Facebook users have been inappropriately shared with the political council.

Zuckerberg's personal representative declined to comment.

First publication on May 2nd at 3:41 pm PT.
Update, 4:37 pm: Adds that Zuckerberg's personal representative declined to comment.