WWW- FRANK Lloyd Wright's wife manipulated the sex lives of unwitting young protégés of the great architect of the Guggenheim Museum, forcing straight and gay students to have dalliances with each other and making them do manual labor on Wright's live-in utopian compound.
That's one of the many torrid revelations in an upcoming tell-all from Regan Books, "The Fellowship," by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman. Ten years in the making, the book details Wright's manic-depression, his veiled anti-Semitism and his love-hate relationship with homosexuals. He called them "pansies" and "degenerates," but surrounded himself with them in the 1930s at his reclusive Arizona colony, Taliesin, where studly apprentices roamed the grounds in bathing attire and harem costumes.
The book, due out this fall, describes scenes there of nervous breakdowns, drug usage, flaky mystics and shady business dealings. And it tragically chronicles how Wright's drug-addicted daughter, Iovanna, tried to kill his wife twice, once with a meat cleaver, and ended up in a mental asylum.
