How Many Bodyguards Does It Take to Protect Mark Zuckerberg's 5-Bedroom Mansion?Hint: More than a baker's dozen.
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Paparazzi and passersby beware: There's no casually cruising by Mark Zuckerberg's $7 million abode anymore. The billionaire's Palo Alto, Calif., mansion is now patrolled by 16 security guards, because apparently that's how the world-famous Facebook co-founder and CEO rolls in his perpetual quest for privacy.
Yes, you read that number right.Sixteenbodyguards -- a small army -- are now working detail around the clock at Zuckerberg's cushy five-bedroom digs, according to a recentPage Sixreport. Incidentally, that's the same number of pawnschessplayers use at the outset of a game, and what thenew fatherand his wife, Priscilla Chan, are presumably hoping amount to enough muscle to fend off "threats from unstable" Facebook users.
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Safety first, kids. With more than 1 billion "daily active users on average" trolling the wildly popular social-media network, you're bound to have more than a fewcreeper applesin the bunch. "You're touching hundreds of millions of people," an unnamed "insider" Silicon Valley source toldPage Six. "All the CEOs get threats, and they take them very seriously."
Some more than others.
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By hiring more than a baker's dozen bodyguards to watch over his Palo Alto pad, Zuck's bound to ruffle more than a few neighbors' feathers. He did just that in 2013, when he spent $30 million to buy up four neighboring homes. Meanwhile, people living next door to his $10 million San Francisco digs on splashy Liberty Hill arefurious about his security staffthere. They claim Zuck's watchdogs are "permanently" and "illegally" hogging nearby parking spots with their flashy silver SUVs.
Zuckerberg's press handlers refute the allegations, tellingBuzzfeed News:“安全团队的汽车停在一致with local parking laws. The team strives to be sensitive to neighbors' concerns and regrets any inconvenience."
"Sensitive" security or not, as one neighbor pointed out, it "can be cumbersome living next to Zuck." Unfortunately for his Palo Alto neighbors, it might've just gotten worse.
