NEW YORK (AP) – A day after a jury handed down a multimillion-dollar award to a hip-hop magazine editor who claimed she was fired because she’d complained of sexual discrimination at work, the two sides in the case began disputing the size of the award.

Initial reports and statements from lawyers representing both sides said the total awarded to Kimberly Osorio on Monday was $15.5 million. But on Tuesday afternoon, after a teleconference with Judge Jed Rakoff, of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, lawyers representing The Source magazine and its two founders said the award was $7.5 million.

Scott Baken, a lawyer for the two founders, David Mays and Raymond Scott, said Tuesday evening that the jury had intended to hold the magazine and his clients jointly responsible for $4 million of the award, not separately responsible for $4 million each. His fellow counsel, Mercedes Colwin, who represented the magazine, concurred.

Their math was hotly disputed by Kenneth Thompson, an attorney for Osorio, who said his firm walked away from the discussion with the judge convinced the total was $15.5 million.

“It was incumbent upon them to raise it last night when the jury was there,” Thompson said Tuesday. “It’s a spin.”

A man who answered the phone at the judge’s office declined comment Tuesday evening.

The jury rejected Osorio’s claims that she was subjected to sexual discrimination when she worked at the magazine from 2000 until 2005, becoming the magazine’s first female editor-in-chief.

But it concluded she was fired in retaliation after she made her sexual discrimination claims, complaining of a workplace in which pictures of G-string-clad women hung on the walls and an X-rated movie was shown in the mail room.

On Tuesday afternoon, Osorio expressed satisfaction with what she believed was a $15.5 million verdict, and her lawyers painted it as affirmation that sexual discrimination should not be tolerated at any workplace, despite the jury’s rejection of that claim.

“I definitely hope this has an impact on the attitude of hip-hop toward women,” said Osorio in a news conference. “It was very hard for me emotionally. There was a lot of harm to my reputation.”

The Source and its founders, who no longer work there, intend to appeal.

“We fully expect to prevail on appeal both on liability and damages,” Baken said.

The magazine’s executive vice president, Julie Als, said: “We are pleased that The Source has been cleared of any wrongdoing regarding sexual harassment and discrimination.”

The remaining claims of retaliation and defamation stem strictly from the accusations made against our former owners David Mays and Raymond Scott, who are separated from the company as of nearly a year ago and do not reflect on the current management or any employees of The Source.”

Thompson said he was not worried about reports that the magazine had filed for bankruptcy protection before the verdict, saying, “They’re still a viable company.”

Osorio said the harassment grew as she rose through the ranks at the magazine. She said she had to deal with untrue rumors that she had personal relationships with people in the industry.

But she also said she was promoted because, “They needed someone to do the job, and at the time I was the person best suited to do the job.”

Osorio said although the hip-hop industry did at times appear unfriendly toward women there were many positive aspects to the genre and she would not want to see The Source, which bills itself as the magazine of “hip-hop news, culture and politics,” go out of business.

Thompson argued in court that Osorio suffered great harm from her firing and emotional distress from public humiliation that resulted when she was called a criminal who had attempted to extort her bosses.

“Kimberly Osorio’s career in hip-hop publishing is over,” he said. “She was at the top of the No. 1 rap magazine in the world. It’s over. Where does she go now? Where does she go from here? She was going up. They took it all away.”

On Tuesday, Osorio said she’d had to deal with many questions about her case when applying for new jobs but had found one. She is now executive editor at bet.com, an affiliate of Black Entertainment Television.