Leon took a couple of his paintings down to the opening of Jennifer Lopez's restaurant, Madre's. Hundreds of fans showed up for the event, not to mention photographers and film crews from all the major networks and newspapers.  The clippings shown below are from The Associated Press and the local Pasadena newspaper.

Lopez disappointed everybody that day when she walked straight past them without signing autographs.   Only the "diehards" stuck around till closing time, hoping she'd   acknowledge a smaller crowd.  Their persistence paid off!   She stopped and chatted with the 30-40 people that had waited for her.. it was late.. close to 11:30PM.  She autographed both of Leon's paintings shown in the press photos below and here's a snapshot of her autographing the largest of the two.