Existence of a unitary matrix $U$ given some fixed $A$ such that $UA$ is self-adjoint?

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Suppose we have some random matrix $A \in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{C})$. Now I wish to claim there exists a unitary matrix $U \in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{C})$ such that $UA$ is self-adjoint, i.e. $(UA)^{*} = UA$.

This yields $UA = (UA)^{*} = A^{*}U^{*}$, but I don't know it that is of any use. Writing it out for $n=2$ seems to work, but I was hoping there is a theorem (which I have been unable to find) which states the existence for general $n$?