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. |