Barron Hilton — the brother of socialites Paris and Nicky — met this week with a phalanx of lawyers to explore his legal options after allegedly being beaten earlier this month in Miami by New York writer Ray LeMoine.
But, sources close to Barron tell us, after the powwow, the male Hilton scion jetted off to Maui to think it over while his more famous sisters are pressing him to mount a case.
“He said he’d been in a meeting with a number of lawyers in LA,” said a pal. “But he’s weighing his options. It’s up to him. He went to Maui. He’s over all the drama, so he’s unsure whether he’s going to go through with it.”
Meanwhile, sources said that Paris and Nicky aren’t as forgiving, and that they’ve been personally working the phones, calling potential witnesses and also members of the press to keep the heat on.
“They are marshalling forces to go forward with a case,” said a source close to the family. “They want to see this guy [LeMoine] in jail.”
The alleged attack on Barron happened at a Star Island mansion where he was partying with a group that included Lindsay Lohan.
But while Barron headed off to Hawaii, LeMoine’s just signed a movie deal, we exclusively hear. The film isn’t about his battle with Barron, but rather a big-screen adaptation of his nonfiction book “Babylon By Bus,” which follows LeMoine and a pal abandoning their summer jobs selling “Yankees Suck” T-shirts outside Fenway Park and traveling to Israel and then Iraq, where they became humanitarian aid workers during the American invasion in 2003.
LeMoine said the movie version had been previously in the works, and that Mel Gibson (who else?) formerly held the rights for a screen adaptation. Now, Todd Labarowski, the Dreambridge Films producer behind “The Kids Are All Right,” will direct. We hear that Lohan herself is interested in joining the cast to play an aid worker who was killed by a roadside bomb.
Reps for the Hiltons didn’t respond to a request for comment.