Leonardo "Leo" du Pres is a fictional character from the American ABC Daytime soap opera All My Children.

The role was portrayed by actor Josh Duhamel from November 22, 1999, to the character's death onscreen on October 17, 2002.

[1] On June 6, 2011, Entertainment Weekly reported that Duhamel would return in August to reprise his role as Leo du Pres in a dream of Greenlee Smythe's.

Short on cash and tired of his boarding school lifestyle, Leo headed to Pine Valley to finally meet his mother's newest husband, Palmer Cortlandt.

Palmer Cortlandt found out just before the staged shooting that Leo was Vanessa's son and jumped in front of the bullet.

Wade held Greenlee at gunpoint and demanded that she get him a sizeable chunk of cash and a passport out of the country.

Erica picked Leo—with a little help from Bianca, to be the male half of the Young Couple of Enchantment ad campaign.

When Bianca overheard some girls talking poorly about her, she hooked up with her friend, Rain, and headed to a bar.

Leo comforted Bianca after she revealed to him that she was gay, and he used his unique brand of humor to help make her feel better about herself.

Leo and Greenlee found themselves growing more and more fond of each other—even though both had originally been working together to go to their supposedly true loves, Becca Tyree and Scott Chandler, respectively.

Roger caught wind of the agreement and flew in a woman from Verona, Italy, named Sybella di Courcey.

Just two days later, the pair married in Laura's hospital room with Brooke, Bianca Montgomery, best man David Hayward, and nurse Zora in attendance.

However, in spite of her happiness, Laura's health continued to deteriorate rapidly and the only possible way to save her life was with a heart transplant.

Leo began to wonder about the drug money she had stashed away somewhere, seeing that cash as a way for him and Greenlee to eventually move to their favorite city, Paris.

Even this was marred, due to former associates of Vanessa's—who also wanted the drug money—crashing the wedding with Vanessa in tow and inadvertently shooting and killing Greenlee's father.

Leo also discovered he had another long-lost relative, after cousins Maggie and Frankie had arrived in town earlier in the year—Trey was actually his older brother, Ben Shepherd.

Trey had assumed his dead best friend's identity and had dedicated his life to wreaking havoc on the mother who had abandoned him at birth.

In truth, "Nessa," who had been taken into federal custody, had reverted to being Vanessa, and knew of the real treasure-a fortune in diamonds.

But moments before their flight to Paris, he received a call from David, whom he had been helping out after his latest arrest and imprisonment.

Vanessa screams angrily at her loss, and in return, calls Leo a fool for ruining their future.

Leo and Vanessa then had a very bad argument, which apparently resulted in him strangling her for pushing Greenlee over the edge.

Reaching her breaking point, Vanessa aimed the gun at Leo's head while gasping for air, threatening him not to make her kill him.

Unfortunately their combined weight during the fight for the gun breaks the railing and both Leo and Vanessa fall 100 feet to the river.